# Chateau de la Tobler

## Thursday, January 28, 2010

### Just a little something

So, in order to give everyone something to read and to hopefully jump start the blog again, I copied this over from my blog. (Giggles=Katy, Kicks=Jayson) (Also, I'm just so proud of my boy, so I have to brag anywhere I can!)
For Christmas this year, Giggles received a chalk/white board, complete with chalk, a dry erase marker, an eraser, and alphabet/number magnets. I thought it was the coolest thing I'd seen in a long time and I was so excited to give it to her. She was excited to receive it and played with it a lot at first. Not really the magnets, just the chalk board or the white board or both. When we got home from Vegas and I put the magnets on the fridge, Giggles almost forgot all about them. Oh, she's fiddle with them occasionally, but they weren't enough to really grab her attention.
Kicks, on the other hand, has gone nuts over them. I swear he lives in the kitchen these days, squatting in front of the refrigerator, endlessly taking them down and putting them back up. At first, he ignored the letters for the most part, preferring to play exclusively with the numbers. He'd been doing this for a few days before I realized something. Kicks was arranging the numbers correctly. It wasn't some random thing to him. He would take them down one at a time and place them carefully on the floor, until he had them all lined up, nice and neat. Then he would put them back. He put them back on the fridge backwards, but still in the correct order, never wrong. When I first saw them lined up on the floor, I assumed Giggles had done it. But after watching a while, I realized it was Kicks all along. Keep in mind, Kicks just barely turned two.
He's gone on now to correct himself. He now puts the numbers is the correct order going forwards 1-9, usually with the 0 tacked onto the end. When he mastered this, he started with the letters. We had the letters lined up in order in about three rows. He started with the last row (the easiest for him to reach) and learned to put them in order. He followed the same pattern, lining them up on the floor, then transferring them backwards to the fridge until eventually he put them in the correct order going forwards. He can do R-Z now. I have no doubt he would learn the rest as well, except that the magnets have been scattered some since then and we've lost the B and the D. I haven't had the desire to put them all back up and search for the missing letters, so he contents himself with the numbers and the last row of letters. All I know is, my boy is a genius!

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