Showing posts with label puzzles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label puzzles. Show all posts

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Puzzle Mania!

Landon loves doing puzzles. In fact, he has loved them since he was 2 years old. I have always been amazed at his ability to do them. In order for me to put together a puzzle I need to see the big picture. I am constantly referring to the front of the box so that I know which piece goes where. Landon doesn't need the box. I swear he looks at a piece and just KNOWS where it is supposed to go. Putting puzzles together has been something we have enjoyed together for years. Over the years he has progressed past the 100 piece puzzles, the 300 piece puzzles, and even the 500 piece puzzles. So, I promised him that I would buy him a REALLY hard one and we would work on it together. Landon and I started to do this puzzle just before Conference weekend. Sorry for the sideways picture. For some reason it won't load horizontally. Wierd, I know. Anyway....
We are quite the puzzle team him and I. I put together the "easy" parts and he puts together the harder parts that I don't want to have to deal with. :0)
When that puzzle was done, it just so happened that he had a couple of days off from school. So, we went and bought a second puzzle to get started on.
And then, when we finished that puzzle, I went and bought another one to start on.....
We are currently "in process" but managing quite well. :0) It has been nice spending time next to him hovering over the puzzle and trying to figure out where the pieces go. I have really enjoyed the one on one time. Landon is such a smart kid and likes to tell me how wrong I am when I have tried to put a puzzle piece in the wrong spot. I mean....duh! So obvious! :0) No matter. Honestly, I have found that puzzles are quite addicting and I have to actually pull myself away from it at night to get some homework done. I'm thinking we're going to be building up quite the collection....