Building Towers Is Child's Play

For months, Gavin has played with the blocks in the picture. This amounted to chewing on them, banging them into other toys, and throwing them as far as possible. While I have showed him how to build a tower on several occasions, all those structures were immediately leveled by Gavin's incredible right hook.

Tonight, Kiersten and I were discussing the fact that Gavin had not experimented with stacking his blocks. At the very moment we talked about this milestone, Gavin expertly lifted a block with two hands and placed it on top of another block. "The crowd went wild!" is an understatement. As Gavin has caught onto Mommy and Daddy's cheering as a positive sign, he was encouraged by our whooping and clapping and continued the exercise by picking up the third block and topped off the block tower.

It was a thrilling and bizarre moment. Gavin spent the rest of the evening practicing stacking with vary success. He is pictured here with his third successful stack.