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[Photo of Humuhumu concentrating very hard on wielding a screwdriver on Rita, my old red bicycle.]
The bloke sent the above photo to his father. Father-out-law's reply? "It looks like she's loosening the brake cable. Are you sure she hasn't taken out a life insurance policy on you?" Ah, thank you, sir, for stoking our fears that we are, indeed, raising a Stewie.
(She decided to work on this bicycle unprompted. The bloke went off to fetch something from inside the house and when he came back, she was tinkering with the screwdriver, copying his actions.)
[Photo of Humuhumu helping the bloke scrub down one of the hybrids.]
In other cognitive development news, Humuhumu has been playing with an app called Toca Mini for over a year. The characters start out completely blank - solid white, with no features. About six months ago I asked her to start taking photos whenever she finished a design, and she almost always does it. The photos automatically back up from my phone to my Google account.
She designed a character this morning and it struck me that she'd made a sudden leap in understanding the symmetry and positioning of facial features. I mean apart from the fact that she always gives her characters four eyes (the maximum permitted by the app), she now deliberately puts them all on the same horizontal line, and spaces out the nose and mouth beneath them. There's a marked difference between the characters she produced a month or two ago, and the one from this morning.
[Toca Mini character designed by Humuhumu, May 2015]
[Toca Mini character designed by Humuhumu, April 2015]
[Toca Mini character designed by Humuhumu, March 2015]
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The same goes for cleaning the toad's tummy. That one is exceptionally repetitive!
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Hilariously, she is playing it beside me.
True with the bandages! Banana doesn't mind the toad, I think because she can see she's having an effect even if it takes a while, but she still struggles with the bandages.
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And, yes, that is a huge difference between the previous month and this month!
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Though of course now she's figured out screwdrivers there's no telling what you'll find dismantled....
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I hear lots of good things about the Toca Boca apps, so good to know their reputation is warranted.
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You have to be watchful, though. My daughter aged 30 months, plonked inside the car while her father did some work underneath it (not sensible of him!), managed to start the engine with a screwdriver. A few months later she stuck a screwdriver into a wall socket at a friend's house in Germany. That seemed to cure her of working with tools, which was a great shame.
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Glad to hear it's not just me being overly proud parent with her progress. ;)
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The Toca Boca apps and a few of the Lego Duplo apps (which are free!) are the best ones I've found.
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Well, either that or the QA-type who does the test to destruction....
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