At Least He's Creative!

No, he didn't make the WHOLE mess all by himself. He had a little help from a certain someone whose name begins with "H" and ends with "annah."

But the point of the post is, Jack is getting quite creative with his determination NOT to crawl. If he wants to go somewhere other than where he is, he will roll on his back and do a backstroke type move scooting, or he'll be on his stomach doing a cross between a butterfly stroke and that breakdancing move called "the worm." Today I watched him move at least five feet forward while sitting up by a complex wiggling/scooting/arm flailing maneuver. I said, "Buddy, crawling can't be THAT much harder than moving around from a sitting position!

In other news, Jack liked to figure out how things work. I recently got out a toy for him that Hannah was never that into. It's a wooden cube where each face has a different activity like an abacus, puzzle, rotating disks, wooden rods that can be make into a fish, etc. The top is one of those wire mazes with the wooden beads on it. This toy occupies a lot of Jack's attention. He likes to thread all the beads to one side then the other, or rotate the toy around and move all the pegs and pieces about. His other favorite is a wooden shape sorter puzzle block, and I think it's interesting that he wants to put the pieces in the holes and stack them and bang them together. I have noticed with several other toys that Jack's approach is always to notice the small doo-dads and how they move and operate, whereas Hannah prefers to grab a toy and use it for a pretend use as like a shopping cart or baby stroller.

I don't think it's a good idea to pigeonhole kids, but it's fascinating to me to see how early a child's learning style and preferences start to come out.