I love watching how Jonah plays with toys in ways we might consider "outside the box". For example, he helps water the Christmas tree with the gas can from his lawnmower (shaped a little like my watering can) and stocks his pirate ship with food from the Playmobil farm (a bag of potatoes and barrel of some unidentified substance).
Recently, Jonah has begun building towers out of his stacking/nesting blocks. He reaches to put blocks at the top of towers as tall as he is before knocking them down again! He also had success with a couple of his chunky and peg puzzle pieces.
In athletic pursuits, Jonah has been enjoying his new basketball hoop. It came just in time, as he and Daddy had taken to throwing things into the recycling bins. He can slam dunk, but enjoys bringing the ball to watch Daddy score from downtown. They both yell "score!" after a basket. Jonah also tries to dribble, throwing the ball to the ground, picking it up and repeating. He sometimes attempts for the forward pass, but the motion usually lands the ball behind him. We practice with beanbags, but after a couple tries, he resorts to placing the beanbags in the bucket. As in basketball, his accuracy is much better if the object never leaves his hand until it reaches the target.
