Puzzle Pride

The title of this post is mostly about my pride - and surprise at how much and how quickly Andrew is learning. Of Andrew's collection of puzzles, he has two where every piece in the puzzle is exactly the same shape. It's a cool idea because it gives a really young one the chance to have fun with a puzzle and practice the dexterity it takes to fit pieces when maybe they aren't quite ready to discern between different designs and colors. When he first got these, Andrew focused on putting all of the fish tails and car fronts together. He was too young to pay attention to the different colors and designs. He produced some pretty cool designs using this method actually. But tonight, I noticed for the first time how he has started to pay attention to the designs and colors as well as the shapes of the pieces. And it made me just so proud and happy to watch him work it all out! I took this short video of Andrew figuring out the shapes and the colors for each piece. Check it out as he "goes fishin".