What keeps a 13 month old happy during the inside days of winter?
Blocks. Knocking over towers is always a barrel of laughs. Recently, though Timothy has discovered that he can push the small cylinder in and out of the square block. Push it out, turn it over. Push it out turn it over. You get the picture! This keeps him quite happy for at least 15 minutes.
The Christmas card box. I stashed all of our Christmas cards in a nice box (thanks Grandma!) with the intention of picking one card each evening to include that family in our prayers. I have been forgetting to do this, but Timothy has found that he really likes the box. He pulls out the cards and letters, looks at them, hands them to me or throws them on the floor. Once the box is empty, he starts putting them in again, tries to stick them on the wall, or files them on the chair. Oh my, what fun!! A big thank you to everyone who sent us a card and helped create such entertainment for Timothy!
Dropping things. How could one not be entertained for hours by dropping things, shoving things off tables or throwing things down stairs? The picture below shows his delight at having just pushed a toy off of his yellow chair.
Stairs are also among the favorites these days. Down and up. Up and down. He does pretty well and even remembers to turn around so his feet go first--well most of the time.
