Puzzles!

Both our kids love to put together puzzles, but Miss Smiley amazes me with her abilities sometimes. She is often the first one awake in the morning and her favorite thing to do is to go out to sit at the coffee table in the living room and work quietly on a puzzle until everyone else rouses.

She started putting together simple 25 piece puzzles at age 2. For Christmas this year we gave her two small 50 piece puzzles in her stocking. I didn't really think she could do them since the pieces were tiny, but they were just from the dollar store so I figured why not? I was amazed when she sat down one day for about an hour and put them together all by herself! I guess we're on to 100 piece puzzles now...

Tractor Boy, on the other hand, doesn't have enough patience (or attention span) to put together more than 10 pieces, so he likes the card matching game we gave him for Christmas. It only takes three cards to form a tractor, truck, car, ambulance, military vehicle, etc.--perfect for him! He gets pretty proud when he makes a match.