Puzzle Man

#2 Boy has always had a knack for puzzles. This is when he was about 8 months old putting a puzzle together. Of coarse at this age I was still helping him a little but he had figured out how to turn the puzzle pieces when I said, "you need to turn them around."

About the time that he turned 2, #1 Girl and #2 Boy got a bunch of 25 piece puzzles for Christmas. #2 Boy loved helping to put those together and by around 2.5 years he was able to complete some of them all by himself. I would leave him in the kitchen at the table with the puzzle and about 30 minutes later he would let me know he had finished it. I was amazed the first few times (really amazed that he stuck with it that long).

Then a couple of weeks ago #2 Boy came home from church with one of his primary papers....
..looks kind of like a puzzle, huh? The teacher said that he was the only one in the class to actually put the clothes together like that and I thought back to when #1 Girl had done this same lesson and the clothes were all over the page. Later #2 Boy requested that people were drawn and said that the shorter set of clothes was him and the taller one was Daddy. So cute!

However, that said, he still gets things a little confused some times...words out of order or even the wrong words. One of our favorites is, "Three Men" for the restaurant called Five Guys. :-) Right idea, totally wrong words!