Stack away!

Well, the stacking cups are really old toys that have quite been forgotten and never quite used in the way they were intended to till lately. She would (and still does!) pretend to drink from these cups, or hold one of the cups with her lips and crawl/ cruise/ walk around (depending on the stage that she's in) pretending to be some animal, or simply put something small in the cup and shake it wildly to make some noise. I haven't really been 'teaching' her how to play with those stackable cups for the past few months coz like I said, they're a forgotten toy. I just dug them out for her recently because I read that 16-mth-olds should be able to build a tower of 2 blocks at least before they reach 17mths and maybe build a higher tower of 3-4 blocks even, if they are fast. Hence, I went to dig out her stacking cups and showed her once how to build a tower of 4 cups. She, needless to say, destroyed my tower of cups. Surprisingly, she went on to build her own tower of cups and voila, she did it(!) and then proceeded to destroy the tower she'd built. Haha. Well well well... didn't really need to teach much. I guess when it's time for them to master a skill, we don't really need to 'teach' that much! :) These few days, she's starting to clap after she succeeds in building a tower of 4 cups and will look at me for approval - of coz i'd clap and praise her!

These days, when she sees these cups lying randomly around in the house, she'd just go over and stack them then carry a tower of at least 2 cups carefully around with her as she toddles in the house. I think she secretly likes the challenge of balancing the cups as she walks. When I do manage to get a video of her stacking cups I'd upload it here. You know, for babies and toddlers, things happen so fast that they're over before you can even whip out a camera or a phone. For now, here's a pic of the stacking cups: