He's been taking any toy, including things like vibrating elephants made for 3 month olds, and comming up with SOMETHING difficult to do with them. He appeared to be trying to get the elephant's looped cord to hook onto something so he could pull the cord using only one hand, but refused to use his hand on the cord to do it. Lassoing is just NOT a 12 month skill, thanks.
And he was trying to play along to a jazz song with a triangle. It was too fast for him. He was trying to learn to blow a recorder, but he figured that one out, so now it's just a noise problem (and actually he doesn't squeek too much, so it's not even a really bad noise problem), we will soon have a whole consort of toddlers blowing into recorders while their parents do the fingering, and then we will need a video camera.
The one he keeps going back to is ballancing wedge-shaped blocks on their thin edges, and stacking blocks on top of round blocks. I've seen people pull these things off, but they are crazy, and have probably spent more combined hours trying to do these things than DS has been alive. And trying to feed himself things like soup. And trying to feed ME things like soup.
Blarg.
But today was a little better, and I'm feeling a little better.
Thanks for the moral support
