Rusty Bones, You Puzzle Me!

To say our big guy has a mind of his own, may be a slight understatement.  He certainly gets set in his ways (but, so does his mom and dad). One consistent thing Rusty Bones seems to do is obsess about things....I say things, because these things changes.  Sometimes over a course of a couple days, sometimes a couple months...or longer.  For instance, one of his first obsessions was TV.   More specifically, he would only want to watch certain shows.  It went from Baby TV (Color Crew!), to Curious George, to Tumble Leaf.... or even more currently - movies.  In the past 6 months we have had obsessions with Home, Aladdin, Inside Out, Frosty the Snowman, and Big Hero 6.   He sings the songs and has memorized even certain scene scripts and reenacts them during the scenes (like when Joy drags Saddness around "long term memory").  He's got quite a memory!

One obsession that has stayed fairly consistent is his love for puzzles (no, he doesn't watch TV and movies all day).  We actually put all his wooden puzzles away back in November, except for his personalized name puzzle, ABC's, and numbers (0-9).  He began working on a Thomas the Train puzzle that was 12 big pieces.  Although he still needed to work on his skills, he was getting better and better at it.  In a matter of maybe 2 weeks, he had mastered it on his own.  We knew that this needed to be an item on the holiday list!

He added approximately 15 puzzles to his collection over the holidays.  Twelve piece puzzles (seen in picture), to 24 piece puzzles.  He can do the majority of them on his own (mind, we are less than a month after Christmas).  He loves his puzzles!!  The puzzle we are working on now is one that we got to challenge him for a while.  It's a wooden chameleon  puzzle that connects by putting numeric pieces in order (1-15).  In addition, the puzzle flips over to do the same thing but in English/Spanish number words.  It may take some time, but he doesn't get frustrated with it!  He counts to fifteen, and I give him the pieces for now.  I don't think his number recognition in too far away... he already knows some of his letters. Rusty Bones, You Puzzle Me!