New concept

A conversation this morning.


Oliver: Grandma!

Me: You can see grandma in a few days. Two more sleeps and grandma will be here.

O: Sleeps?

Me: Yes, sleeps - you'll sleep tonight and tomorrow night and then grandma will be here.

O: (concentrating) Sleeeeps.


I think he was analyzing this new way of marking time, although his mother suggested he could have been questioning the pluralization of 'sleep'.