Toren seemed a bit old and big for his highchair a couple months back, so we came up with a different idea: his own table. $20.00 at Ikea and Toren was set. He eats there, but he also colors at his table and generally plays there. Here he is playing with his markers on his table:
Toren playing at his table
His markers are erasable and they wipe right off the table. Here’s a video clip of him trying to understand why they are rolling:
For a few months now, Toren has been helping with the dishes. A testament to social learning theory, Toren saw us putting detergent packs in our dishwasher. So, one day he decided to do it. And he did it really well. He opened the cupboard, got out a single packet, put it in the right way, and closed the lid (he needs a little help with the detergent cover as it is a bit hard to close). Here’s a sample:
It will be nice when he does more than this, but this is a decent contribution for an 18 month old.
While I was watching Toren one Sunday afternoon I thought it might be fun to make sugar cookies with him and use cookie cutters to turn them into holiday cookies. I remember doing this when I was growing up and thought it was fun.
Toren seemed interested when I got the cookie cutters out. He enjoyed playing with those. When I asked him which one he liked the best and wanted to turn into a cookie (I’m guessing he didn’t understand what I meant), he chose a dinosaur. So, I made Toren’s name, some other seasonal cookies, and a dinosaur, with Toren’s help:
Toren loves to be outside. He particularly loves finding sticks and then hitting stuff with them (Debi recently trained him to not hit our cars). Here he is hitting the ground:
