Play

Tess really loves drawing and painting right now. That still means that getting set up and cleaning up are about as much fun as the actual activity, but she's also starting to spend a lot more time engaged in "drawing." She holds the crayons from the end and starts and the bottom of the page and makes vertical lines all over the page. She also tries to trace her hand, which involves making lines that start from her fingers and then go up. It's not much, but it is interesting to note that she went from just brushing the crayons over the paper to suddenly making very clear marks all in the last couple of weeks.

She also loves to play with blocks now--making towers, pretending they are food, or stacking her little people up as she did here.

She's very social in her play.  In the picture below, you can see that she's surrounded herself with Elmo, a little porcelain figurine, and a sticker of a dog. She specifically wanted all of these things arranged around her to watch Shaun the Sheep with her. This is typical. She gathers little "friends" around her all day long, and LOVES when she gets to meet up with real friends.