My wife Rachel made pumpkin muffins last night. Her contribution to the world of baking is the chocolate chip pumpkin muffin. I feel The Honest Toddler would approve. I know that Tabitha does.
Tabitha told me about a dream she had last night. In the dream, there was only one pumpkin muffin left.
Later in the morning, Tabitha counted the muffins in the tin.
She got eight.
Me: Wait. Count those again?
Tabitha (six years old): [Points to her mouth] One. [Points to first muffin in tin] Two, three, …
Et cetera, ending at eight.
Tabitha: So really, we had eight muffins left.
Me: I see, last night when you dreamt there was one, there were really eight.
T: Yes.
Me: That must be reassuring to you.
T: Did you eat one this morning? Then it would be nine.
Overthinking my teaching 