[Stormster]

Ok this is a crazy question: E is loving his sorting toys. The balls go through the round hole, the square through the square....but give that boy a triangle and he ALWAYS either hands it back or tries to put it through one of the other holes?!

It wouldn't be such an interesting phenomenon if it wasn't soooo consistent! Are triangles more advanced or something?

[minibus]

I wonder if it's because it's less symmetrical? Just a wild theory. How funny that he does that!

[nikkianni]

When one of my younger cousins was two he stopped eating purple fruit loops. Just the purple ones. He was always allowed fruit loops as a once a day snack and it was a big deal. No fruit loop was left behind under any circumstances. But for six months solid he'd pick the purple ones out and leave them.
I'm guessing triangles are E's purple fruit loops.

[Leigh131313]

Hey Stormster......Too much time on your hands??

[Stormster]

I guess but you know it's so much fun to notice the little things!

[Leigh131313]

Do you journal? I personally don't - but we talked about it at one of our MOPS meetings once, and some of the women REALLY enjoy it. They say it's so hard to remember things down the road.... You really should.

[Stormster]

I have a little notebook that was recommended by someone on the Guatemala board where you write down funny things the baby says so I guess I could also write stuff like that but you know I'll never do it, I"m too ADD.

As a matter of fact I don't even keep on top of his little immunization book. I'm so not a grown up!

Of course I could just print out some of my posts on a.com! Cut and paste! I love glue sticks LOL

[RavenSong]

Stormster, yes indeed, toddlers have more trouble with matching triangle blocks than they do square and round ones. I remember learning about this way back in my college days, for some weird reason. I'll have to look at my old textbooks and see if I can find where I learned that from. The books are out in the barn, though, so it might take me a day or two to find them, lol.

[Stormster]

I knew I could count on you Raven!

PS I want a barn too!

[Vogi2002]

C still isn't getting shapes, he is almost 20 months old, so I think you are good. My ped said that shapes are something that kids tend to get early or late, and c won't sit down long enough to play with them! He is just now having ANY interest in them.

I have really tried to help him....

[Stormster]

I can't teach E anything either and he's a mad man, can't even watch TV. That's why this surprised me so much!

[Vogi2002]

Ha ha - he is so much like C it's funny. C is ALL OVER the place. All those "activities" that people do - HA! The one activity he does is the park, and even then I have to be sure he doesn't try to walk off the playground set like he did today (sheesh). Oh - and he does like to play basketball & any sports!!! Can tell the difference between a football, basketball, & baseball. But he can't tell me what is red, black, green, orange, etc. LOL!!!

[ddhuab]

I don't know an answer to your question, but the title of your post reminded me of a cute "kids say..." story.

My family went out for pizza with another family. We decided to try a place we hadn't been before. This particular pizza place cuts the round pizzas into little squares pieces. My friends' 4-year-old son, J, who is a picky eater anyway, got very upset and did not want to eat the pizza. His mother told him it was the same thing he was used to, just in a different shape, so he should eat it.

"No," he cried. "Shapes aren't for boys."

Eventually he did try it, as his mother pointed out Daddy was eating it, and he's a boy.

D.