Good foundations and camera smiles

Antigone’s current fave toys are her wooden blocks, bought and revealed to her a year too early. But they’re making a comeback, and she’s acquiring some fantastic skills - dexterity and fine motor skills, as well as resilience and persistence. And she makes a great foundation. Which is colour-coded, I might add.

Playing with blocks is also a perfect opportunity to capture Tiggy’s ‘camera smile’. If you ask her to smile for the camera, she either pokes her tongue out or grimaces as if she were passing a monster scat.

Here’s monster scat-face while climbing down the stairs in gumboots.

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