It's seriously the first pattern I remember actually having to learn--Counting 1-10. I guess the alphabet was next. Once you know them, it seems so logical, like it's always been there in the world and your head. Neither of which, of course, is true, which makes both knowing the numbers and the letters a little like magic.
What's equally magical is how hard it is to remember the challenge of learning your numbers or letters, though my friend Casey's son Ben reminded me one visit home to Cincinnati. Just learning his alphabet by singing the song at, I don't know, three-years-old? And he hadn't made it very far, so he sang, "A, B, C, D, E, F, Mommy. Mommy Mommy Mommy Mommy. . . . " and so on through the entire length of the melody. Melody is apparently easier than both letters or numbers (even though it involves both).
Ridiculously cute and it also brought back all of those sessions in school learning how to write and read and becoming citizens in this weird patterned and coded world of adults.
But here's a little extra cuteness to round this out.
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