Quite puzzling

My daughter astounds me. She's so smart. She's a genius. Okay, maybe not genius... she really is still so young. [Not quite 2 & 1/2]


But, she is amazing with puzzles. She has far surpassed the one-piece puzzles. [Well, there are several pieces, but none are interconnected. Example: A bunch of seperate animals. And when you take out the piece, there's a picture of it on the board, making it easy to match up where it belongs. Does that make sense?]



Then she moved on to puzzles that interconnect, but the sides are smooth, not jigsawed. The cow puzzle to the side is a good example. The background [grass, trees, etc] doesn't come up, just the different parts of the cow. Its more difficult, but easy in that obviously the head goes where the shape of the head is cut out.



There are different variations of this kind of puzzle. Obviously. Right now, Erica is working on a hand puzzle. [A lot like the one pictured, though different colors.] Its rather difficult since she doesnt recognize numbers yet. Each finger is numbered 1-10, and on the board underneath there are the same number of corresponding dots. But amazingly, Erica can just figure out where they go by the size/shape.



She's moved on to bigger and better. I bought her a jigsaw puzzle. I doubted that she'd be able to do it. Its also a wood puzzle, and there is a frame, though totally rectangular and with no color or anything to help guide. Well, she's a master at it already.


This is why I say she's a genius: She only has to do a puzzle once and then she's got it! She hardly even hesitates putting it together after that. I think its amazing.