SteelyKid's day care is closed today for a Jewish holiday, so she's spending the day at home with her grandmother. It was a real struggle to get my mother to come up for the day...
Something I'm sure is on the agenda is playing with her shape sorter box, which she was good enough to demonstrate on video:
Note the highly advanced technique-- if it's not quite working, pound on it. She gets that from me.
I cheated a tiny bit with the video, arranging it so the round hole was closest to her, and handing her one of the round objects. She hasn't really grasped the idea of the different shapes, yet, and tends to stick whatever object she grabs into whatever shape opening is closest to her, then bang on it for a while. If that doesn't work, she turns the whole box upside down.
But, hey, she's a baby. She'll get it eventually.
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A scientist changes the block, an engineer changes the hole; management gets more blocks and holes; marketing says it's a feature not a bug. Consultants are brought in, and recommend the colors be changed. The janitor suggests reshuffling the pieces vs. the holes. He is fired for insubordination, then the company is acquired for 10X annual earnings after which the Board of Directors cashes in its preferred stock.
What is fascinating is that she immediately understands that the object is supposed to go into the box. I assume this is universal behavior, since my own two kids behaved much the same (and since these kinds of bay toys are very popular). I wonder what this says about the human brain and human evolution?
then bang on it for a while.
So you've already got her training for experimental science?
See, I don't get this at all. As babies, my kids operated entirely under the rule that "Things Shall Not Be Inside Of Other Things", and vigorously applied it to all drawers, boxes, and laundry baskets.
@ Julianne: yes, but the beauty of that is that an ancillary rule seems to be this one:
"Nothing is Behind Anything Else," or perhaps better expressed as "What I See On a Shelf is All That Exists on That Shelf."
Since no one in my household but me believes that anything could possibly exist behind immediately visible front row objects, no one thinks to move objects in the front row to search for objects in the back. The frustrating part of this is that everyone bellows for me when they can't find anything, because I am the only one who believes objects can exist behind other objects.
The upside is this:
I have successfully managed to hide my high-test chocolate stash behind cans of tomatos for YEARS. If my husband and children ever discover that objects can exist behind other objects, I will have to think of another hiding place . . .
aaawwwwwwwww lookit the baby, so cute .