I have a lot of back blogging to catch up on this weekend. With photos. In the meantime...
I had a moment with Kai similar to the first time I saw him put the square block in to the square hole. Sheer wonder bordering on disbelief.
Kai spends a lot of time playing with his trains on the train table. Jake and I set up track for him and occasionally change up the configurations. Kai has gotten really, really upset when a train falls off of the track or table since the first time we set it up. He becomes so frustrated that he just stands back and says "uh-oh" and "oh-no" alternately and will start tearing apart the tracks and throwing things on the floor if he doesn't get the train back on to the track. We have tried encouraging him to fix it himself. Usually, we end up fixing it for him and then everything is fine until the train derails again. Also, he has a hard time with lining up the magnets that hook the trains together correctly and can usually only push one or two trains at a time effectively.
Tonight some sort of switch must have flipped in his little baby brain. I was puttering around picking things up while he was playing and when I sat down by the train table I realized that he had six trains in a row. All of the magnets were in the right order so they were staying together and on track for the most part. When a car would start to derail he would put it back on the track. He was pushing it so carefully around the table - it was amazing. Then two of the trains derailed on their way around the corner which led up a hill. He was upset by it, but attempted to fix it himself. Several times. He would take the car that had fallen off and try to attach it to the others. If it would not stick correctly with the magnet (they repel slightly if the poles are not right) he would put it on the front of the train where the magnet would stick. The minutes watching him play with his train tonight really felt like a gift. I really felt that I was watching him learn how to control the trains and his frustration with them. Not to mention figuring out how magnets work! He also now makes a choo-choo and whistle noise while he is playing with the train. The cutest thing was that he knew that he was being awesome. He would get the train through a bridge and down a hill would look to see if I had seen what he had done. It seems like everything is starting to make sense to him. At least in the train department.
I had a moment with Kai similar to the first time I saw him put the square block in to the square hole. Sheer wonder bordering on disbelief.
Kai spends a lot of time playing with his trains on the train table. Jake and I set up track for him and occasionally change up the configurations. Kai has gotten really, really upset when a train falls off of the track or table since the first time we set it up. He becomes so frustrated that he just stands back and says "uh-oh" and "oh-no" alternately and will start tearing apart the tracks and throwing things on the floor if he doesn't get the train back on to the track. We have tried encouraging him to fix it himself. Usually, we end up fixing it for him and then everything is fine until the train derails again. Also, he has a hard time with lining up the magnets that hook the trains together correctly and can usually only push one or two trains at a time effectively.
Tonight some sort of switch must have flipped in his little baby brain. I was puttering around picking things up while he was playing and when I sat down by the train table I realized that he had six trains in a row. All of the magnets were in the right order so they were staying together and on track for the most part. When a car would start to derail he would put it back on the track. He was pushing it so carefully around the table - it was amazing. Then two of the trains derailed on their way around the corner which led up a hill. He was upset by it, but attempted to fix it himself. Several times. He would take the car that had fallen off and try to attach it to the others. If it would not stick correctly with the magnet (they repel slightly if the poles are not right) he would put it on the front of the train where the magnet would stick. The minutes watching him play with his train tonight really felt like a gift. I really felt that I was watching him learn how to control the trains and his frustration with them. Not to mention figuring out how magnets work! He also now makes a choo-choo and whistle noise while he is playing with the train. The cutest thing was that he knew that he was being awesome. He would get the train through a bridge and down a hill would look to see if I had seen what he had done. It seems like everything is starting to make sense to him. At least in the train department.
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