Monday, November 05, 2007

Jenga Master is definitely in his future

Liam is becoming quite adept at stacking his blocks - he can now stack 4-5 consistently & correctly!

He has two favored methods for knocking them down for sure though...one being the Full Body Throw Down where he just walks straight into the tower like a little Godzilla and knocks them down with his face first then goes crazy swinging his limbs all over the place. The second method he uses, I like to call the Jenga Master Method - he will poke every so gently at the top 1 or 2 box, get one of those down, walk a 1/4 of the way around the tower, pick his next block to knock down & slowly poke at that one to get it down. By then the remaining blocks are usually a free for all and he just goes nutso on breaking those down. But those first few are very well executed Jenga Master Method style.

This morning he did really well with stacking them back up - he discovered that the larger ones will fit over the smaller ones but also decided that this was not what he wanted to accomplish & would remove the smaller one & replace it with the larger (correct) one! And he would continue doing this on his own for about 4-5 more breakdowns & setups!

It's so exciting to watch their little minds crank around & figure things out! I've started doing things "wrong" so that he can have the opportunity to "correct" me & he's so proud of himself when he does it, I just cannot help but hug on him.

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