Adventure House!

The world is such an interesting place for a child! Renovating a kitchen exposed our little Jonathan to the wonderful world of the CARTON! There is nothing like it! Stickers and crayons are also a wonderful invention, as is a simple plastic spoon! One can shovel food into one's mouth with it! Wow! So many discoveries...and mommy is always there to smile, encourage and to clean up...

A carton is priceless! Even though we only had a small one, Jonathan was able to sit in it and try to close it on top of himself for hours! When we saw his enjoyment, we kept a larger one that had contained a large kitchen utensil, but he just tipped it over and it turned out that the smaller carton was better. Not only did Jonathan enjoy it more, it took much less place and was located in our recently renovated kitchen for about a week, until Jonathan lost interest and mommy was able to throw it out (recycling of course...)

Drawing is also relatively new, but after Jonathan took to eating his color pens and drawing on himself, his father decided to put the pens away. After Jonathan started drawing on the galls doors at home (strangely only on the glass doors, not on other doors and not on the walls) and on his play table, mommy agreed with daddy and the pens are packed high up, and given only when someone is there to watch Jonathan. Such precautions were not taken in grandma's house, and Jonathan naturally took his chance to create his first gratify – and so my parents' staircase walls became victim to Jonathan and a black pen!
At home Jonathan's creative streak is satisfied with stickers! He sticks then everywhere (his table, the floor, doors and walls) but they are easily removed and so he has his fun and his freedom and we get to keep the house free of scribbles! The most fun is to stick the stickers on himself or on mommy! He especially loves to laugh at a sticker on m y nose!

A spoon! How wonderful! Jonathan is getting more and more advanced in his spoon management. He first just smeared his food, even if the container was a small one. Now he can enjoy a yogurt with mommy shoveling the white substance up with the spoon from the depth of the normal sized yogurt glass. Yogurt is especially good for his spooning exercises, because it is not entirely liquid, so even if his angle is not perfect, he does not loose the entire content of the spoon in a waterfall! A fork is also a nice thing, Jonathan eats his scrambles egg with a fork like a big boy. But despite his enjoyment of using cutlery and the compliments mommy effuses on him following this display it still seems that there is nothing like playing with your food for a real fun meal! Jonathan loved to feel things – sand, water and food all get splashed around at any opportunity – at least when he is taking a bath, the cleaning up is reduced to a minimum of only splashed water...