Being the 1st child, I spent the most time reading and playing with Alycia when she was a baby. Next was Sherilyn. I spent the least time reading and playing with Baby. Because of her medical condition since birth until she was 15 months old (after the surgeries to fix her problem), we spent a lot of time in and out of the hospital and I did not have much time, energy and mood left to do academic stuff to stimulate her.  Then in the year 2009, I started an online store business and my quality time with my 3 girls went downhill.   As a result, I hardly have the time to read to my girls, especially to Baby. I know how bad this is. I know I should spend as much quality time as possible with them during their first few foundation years. Thus, my New Year Resolution for 2011 is to read more to my girls and spend some quality time with them before bed time every night. I’m glad that it’s moving right on track now.
Anyway, back to Baby. I have never really taught her how to fix a jig saw puzzle. It was through observing her sisters that she learned the tricks and ropes of fixing the puzzle. Her latest prowess now is fixing 24-piece jig saw puzzles that koo mah bought for the girls from the Starfall website years ago. My girls love reading from www.starfall.com. Alycia and Sherilyn learned their ABCs and reading from the Starfall website. Now Baby is loving every bit of the Starfall jig saws. I am very amazed that she has the patience to sit on the floor for 1-2 hours to fix the puzzles. She’s occupying most of her free time fixing these puzzles now and I’m really proud that she can fix a 24-piece puzzle in under 10 minutes as no one had really taught her.
Big baby and small baby fixing jig saw puzzles together…
My girls’ prized possessions – jig saw puzzles from Starfall.com
Refusing to sleep, eat, nap and even refusing to go out…. see how engrossed she is fixing her jig saw puzzles. I kid you not, this kid stayed up to 11ish pm to complete her jig saw puzzles, then dutifully kept every piece of the puzzles back into the respective boxes!
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What an excellent activity!! Helps one with analytical power and also to think outside the box! I know some mums put the completed work on a piece of cardboard and have it framed. Obviously I suck at jigsaw puzzles and my kids never got interested either!
Solving jigsaw puzzles need a lot of patience, means Baby C has very good patience.
Good job, Cassandra! Keep it up!
well done,Baby C…even my boy is not able to solve the 24 pcs puzzles yet.
I must check out that starfall.com website..
Wow, she is good. Well done Cassandra. Good exercise for the brain and also testing her patience 🙂
way to go.. Baby C… I too have a big collection of puzzles, my girl likes it too…
hehe… she is no longer baby C, now should call her pretty C now…
Jigsaw puzzle is very good… my kids loved jigsaw puzzle at one point last year, including my william, and both he and the jie jie would do all sorts of picture (I buy cheap cheap ones from pasar malam also) but sigh… now they no more gungho…
clever Baby C!
Wow, baby C has the patience and is certainly very smart. Noticed that the way she did the puzzle lying down is just like the way her daddy does it 😛
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