Elephant is counting to ten

Marisca is looking a little confused. Firstly everyone who sees her today will think she's a boy. I reckon she'll get over that as she's always keen to eschew traditional gender sterotypes through her clothing choices. She's more concerned about elephant, who is counting to ten. Hide and seek is fine, she's learned that from her cousins, although she's still trying to work out how someone the size of daddy can be so hard to find sometimes. Marisca can see that elephant is counting to ten, but the numbers only go as far as six. Six! That's only just over halfway to ten. Elephant might be counting to six, seven, ten, one million as far as we know. It's a good job that she's bright enough to see that elephant is counting to ten but hasn't got there yet. Lesser 3 month olds may be confused by that. What's really concerning Marisca is that elephant appears to be counting backwards. The number closest to elephant is one, not six, and the suggestion in the representation is that the numbers are floating away from elephant as they are spoken. So if elephant's counting backwards, what happens in this game of hide and seek? If it's in reverse, does monkey then come looking for elephant? Or does elephant have to wander around the jungle backwards trying not to fall into some kind of elephant trap?

Fortunately, Marisca has a while to think about the problem, as the tshirt is 3-6 months and today's the first time it hasn't looked like a tent on her, so it will be fitting for a while.