Smarty Pants!

Perhaps these is not unusual feats for a 15-17 month old, but we are impressed.   (I wrote this post awhile back and never posted it because I kept meaning to add pictures, so now it seems like old news.  Oh well.)

Josiah has difficulty climbing up onto our loveseat because there is nothing to grab on to and nothing to step up on, but he has used his problem solving skills to figure out that he can go get the cardboard box I gave him to play with, empty it out, take it to the loveseat, flip it over, and use it as a stool.  This means he can visit Lilah napping on the couch anytime he wishes.  He loves crawling overtop of her repetitively.  She’s not as thrilled with the arrangement, as it used to be a safe zone for her, but as usual she has handled it nicely.

 

Several weeks ago he learned to buckle his high chair strap together.  Maybe I’m wrong, but I didn’t think they started this until closer to 2 yr old.  It has become his new favorite, aside from jumping on the couch. 

About 2-3 months ago he learned to UN-buckle his carseat.  I definitely thought this was a hurdle we’d have to jump LATER in life.  I even put one of those padded velcro strap covers over it, but that only slowed him down for about 3 seconds.  So now we are down to only one useable carseat as this is a safety (and annoying) issue that I prefer to not teach him by correction.  I learned that it doesn’t necessarily matter how safe an item is or how much you spent on it because one small factor can render it useless.  Thank goodness for the $40 backup seat we got from the Safe Kids Carseat Safety check that he hasn’t figured out yet. 

This one isn’t necessarily related to his smarts, but does demonstrate how he can get Jacob and I to act stupidly.  Lately he has taken to running small circles around groups of toys in the middle of the floor. Perhaps this is related to us trying to teach him “Ring Around The Rosie”.  We were just sitting watching him and laughing and then decided to join in.  I never thought Jacob and I would run tiny circles around kids toys in our own living room, but it was fun!  I got dizzy and had to stop, at which point Josiah started spinning to get himself dizzy and fell in the middle of all the toys!

Oh, on a side note: does anyone else think that those plastic childproof outlet plugs actually seem to entice them to play with the outlets?  Josiah just likes to pull them out (so much for childproof!) and play with them.  I finally just removed them and he’s no longer fascinated by the outlets.