Puzzles

For the last year or more, I've been trying to interest Tess in puzzles. She never liked them. Sometimes she'd do one with me, but she never chose them.

Then, two days ago, she opened up her puzzle drawer and had to do every puzzle we own. She spent hours doing puzzles that day. She made me help her with a sixteen piece, cube puzzle that she got last Christmas. There are 6 possible puzzles on different sides of the cube. She can't do it herself, but she wants me to assist her as we do puzzle after puzzle.

Yesterday she had to do all the puzzles again. She wouldn't leave the house until she'd done them all. And when Eric got home, she was so excited to show off her puzzle skills that she wouldn't eat dinner. We couldn't convince her to wait. Instead she brought her puzzles to the table as Eric and I ate dinner, and put them together right there to show off her skills.

Crazy how the child's brain works. She just wakes up one day with abilities and interests that didn't exist the day before. She also grew a half inch this week. Literally in a day or two, because I've been measuring her recently, and there was no growth five days ago. Crazy.