Careful Scrabble, Atlanta Sunday and Tea with Grammie

Last night, we played Scrabble, and Eli helped pick and place our letters for about half of the game. Eventually, he got bored, and wanted to just play with the letters. I told him that he needed to wait until we were finished with our game. Reluctantly, he did. When it was his turn, he carefully took one tile out of the bag at a time and placed them in perfect rows. This is the travel version of Scrabble, so the tiles snap into place, some snap more successfully than others. But, he was amazingly patient. He's been like that with tiny fine motor tasks since about 6-8 mos. He used to love putting Cheerios into tiny containers, one by one. Of course, I didn't think to get the camera out until he had started dismantling all his hard work, but originally, they were all in neat, full rows.




Then today, we spent a beautiful, albeit cold, day in Atlanta. We try to go into Atlanta once every few weeks to make a Trader Joe's run. And, we try to do other things in Atlanta while we're there. Unfortunately, Uncle Brian was still in Houston on business. But, we did end up going to Ikea, Trader Joe's and most importantly Eli's favorite playground at Piedmont Park. We did get a little picture crazy, but his face just lit up from the second we set foot in the playground. We couldn't resist.




















Then tonight, we went to Grammie and Ba-Bo's house for pizza. As the night wore on Eli got in his pajamas and had his first tea party with Grammie. It's getting so fun now that he's starting to do pretend play.