G has taken to creating order in the universe. no, she is an agent of entropy, and anarchy. but she likes to bring order to household items. It started with lids and tupperware…she figured out to put like-minded containers into one another and the lids that go on them. I’m not sure why this surprises me; its a puzzle, whats not to like. But seeing the cognition go from coincidence to connection to contrivance is amazing. The tupperware thing has lately, in its own small way, been useful. I now have to pick up 14 things instead of 16, thank you G. Last week she enjoyed the red and yellow bottles of the pool test kit, and figured out the little container thing. Packing unpacking packing unpacking…i thought about putting a stop to it but its 4 bucks and i cant even get the bottle open. It hit a true funniness the other day at G’s 15 month peds appt. We’re hanging out in the green room, nekkid, typical quiet time…so she begins to tear apart and open everything in the room. Why a peds office would not have child proof latches on their cabinets, I do not know. Anyway, she pulls out a stck of dixie cups whic are in fact urine samplers. There was the first one, which she tried to drink out of, the second which she used double fisted with the first, the brief distraction, the 3rd and 4th to replace the retired 1st and 2nd, then the entire rest of the team ran out through the tunnel. I now knew, for a fact, she enjoyed stacking. Today was the peak, she picked up rocks from the yard and put em in a giant bucket. after every one, she looked at me and held up her arms and smiled: yeah!!!! this could last for hours. its a big bucket, a little girl, and a yard full of rocks. we can only hope!