Match!

Joe is all about matching right now. At bedtime, he likes to dump out his dinosaur magnets and match them to the legend on the side of their box, or to dinosaurs in his giant fold-out dinosaur book. His favorites include the Iguanadon--IG-AN-A-DON!!!!!--and the Tyranosaurus Rex. Is it any wonder given that both of these dinosaurs are on a giant fold-out flap? Of course not. Julie's favorite is when Joe decides to scoop up the Triceratops magnet and make a match with the Triceratops on the cover of the book, because sometimes when he does, he will charmingly add, "One-two-three! Tri-Cer-Tops!" Usually though, Joe will simply note "Match!" The other popular match "game" is to find all three of our books in which grasshoppers (grass-HOPPER!; emphasis on the second syllable) appear and match those up.

Sunday morning, we played with our matching cards. Julie noticed Joe matched up all the straight up colors and the object that is that color first (yellow and banana); textures and textured objects (e.g fluffy and bunny in immediate foreground) were saved to be matched last. But look at all the matches we made! Joe lined them all up like that once they'd been made.