Block power tower and new animations

Esme's 'power tower' of blocks. You can see in the background of this image the white dresser parts and box (for our business mail we package near this table) she keeps insisting she sit in and 'build a hole' around her. That is what she calls it - she wants the plastic pieces put around the box in a tower formation so she can stand up and knock them all over and build them back up around her again. And she wants to play that game ten or twelve times in a row - screaming and crying each time it falls.. which it inevitably does. Mama is getting very tired of that game because of the screaming. I like the small blocks better! The tower had just gotten too big for her to reach another block to the top, so I started taking pictures. She put all the pieces on there but I did have to convince her to build up from the bottom layer - she was going to put them all in one long line (see below) until I suggested putting some blocks on the second layer - then she took off with the rest of this up and up.



She made 'horsies' out of mega blocks and we had put them away several days ago. They were just columns of three to five square blocks with a rectangle block for the 'head'. She remembered today that they were horsies and went off with the game again. The 'baby' horse had lost it's head, so she put it back on and then the 'daddy' and the 'baby' horse came around the building to go hug the 'mama' horse and say 'you're home!' You can see all of that in the animation posted here, including a few frames of when she said 'horsie' (grin)

As I mentioned - she will just keep making a line until she runs out of blocks. This is her 'interrupted and disbelieving expression' because she asked for another block and there was only one more that size and shape. A bit after this she made her horsies run across the blocks and then we were pick up put away go to Grandma's house.


A little obsessive with the color blocking? Maybe she gets that from both of us...


horse goes 'running' across the blocks

And one other fun animation posted here, of her moving her box from one side to the other and then playing with a few blocks.

I hope you like both of the animations :) They are .gifs and not as high quality as the .jpg images, but they show her expressions and activity. They should open in new windows.

Easier to find links
Animation 'movie' #1 : playing with block horsies
Animation 'movie' #2 : moving box and playing blocks