Drew is reading a book about how babies' brains work, and he told me last night that at about 1 year of age or so, babies will grab blocks and other things and try to play with them in different combinations, as if to figure them out.
He said he noticed that last night, when I was working late and he was playing with Rachel, she kept grabbing different-shaped plastic toys like a star, a circle and a square and banged them together. Then she'd toss one aside and pick up a different-shaped block and banged it against the first block, as if she was searching for a particular sound the blocks made. She was doing this with great concentration.
"I don't know what you're looking for, sweetie," he told her, "but I hope you find it!"
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This reminds me of the time when Matt noticed baby Calvin trying to shove some toy squares and rectangles back into the middle of the soft blocks they accompanied; Calvin obviously was using a lot of brain power to try to accomplish the task; Matt said, "Boy, that's a real brain buster for him."
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