My dd is 21 months almost and she actually counts objects. Quite cute. The thing that really helped was getting her 'flash card' type things. I got them from Learning ladder and they go from 1-10 with pictures on them. And then there is a card with all the objects on there from 1-10 and you get them to pick out the flash card that is the number 5 for example. Made the world of difference and now she can look at a bunch of things and count them.