puzzle time

Luke has always loved puzzles, but lately, his interest and abilities have taken on a whole new dimension. Luke simple adores his puzzles, and he's mastered several 12 piece jigsaw puzzles and one 24 piece jigsaw puzzle. He does them over and over, and he repeats to himself little "clues" about how to do them. "Dinosaur back. Dinosaur teeth. Purple volcano." He also likes to have puzzle races. "Luke do it fast!"

There's something adorably quirky about Luke's interactions with his toys. He loves his favorite toys, but it takes him a while to warm up to a new one. He worked and worked and worked on his moo-moo cow puzzle, with hardly any attention given to the dinosaur puzzle. Then, once he started making headway on being able to put the dinosaur puzzle together, he only wanted to do that one all the time.

I brought Luke two new puzzles from my recent trip to New York (and oh what a delight I had at FAO Schwartz), but the new puzzles haven't made it into the ranks of favorites yet.