Tower Building

The cubes are no exception. These little dudes get the royal treatment. Here she's stacking them up by themselves. She also uses them to put into a little toy that makes noises. On the back of that same device, she'll stack them up. Whenever the stack starts to fall (and this goes for anything that she's stacking), she'll just destroy the rest of the tower, and restart from scratch.

Sure, you may say that this whole tower building this isn't anything special, but she's all over it. In this picture you can see her play with plastic cups. They have a little lip on the bottom, so when you stack them, the other cups catch on nicely. There are 10 or 12 of these cups and she stacks them all the time. They fit inside of each other under normal circumstances, but if you turn them upside-down, then they turn in to wonderful stacking devices. Towers galore.

Although this picture doesn't show her actually building this, but it was indeed built by her. Each morning Maria does her hair (spray it down, brush it out, put in a clip or rubber band or something like that). Well, apparently this activity isn't uncommonly done in front of the mirror. Cecilia likes to look at herself in mirrors, and as we can see, likes to stack up the stuff on top of the counter. Yes, what you see here is vitamins, toothpaste (both upside-down), and Tums (mixed berry, yum). Precariously placed, yet still balancing, she only stopped because they were done with her hair and Maria had taken her down from the counter.

Kids and towers…. go figure. I was really into Lego's when I was a kid, but seeing them start to do stuff like this is pretty cool. On another unrelated note, Cecilia this week has started putting more than one word together. Yesterday I was leaving and she looked up and said "dada bye-bye" before I had ever SAID I was going to leave. 1 - she catches on to all the cues that I'm leaving without me having to say it, and 2 - she put two words together. Pretty cool. Okay, enough said.