But it isn't just looks that she's inherited from her dad. She has an amazing talent for hand-eye coordination and a knack for spatial recognition. We've got another Jean-Machine on our hands.
Sophia will find two completely unrelated objects, several rooms apart and decide they are a perfect fit. One will fit into the other like they were made to be a pair.
I don't think she sets out to find a fit, I think she holds an object, takes its shape in and then notices when something similar crosses her path.
All day she will bring me things that she has fit together. Sometimes the fit is so exact, I can't get them apart.
Last night I showed her a cool dominoes set that Scott's cousin brought back from Africa. They are made out of carved wood and are gorgeous and quite small. Sophia was thrilled with them. She took them all out in the living room and lined them all up. Then, for the next 45 minutes, she carried them across the house to the family room, and back, putting them all where they belonged.
This afternoon she was playing quite quietly on her own for a long time, which always makes me a little nervous. I peaked into the family room to see what she had found.
She had the dominoes all collected and sitting beside her. In front of her was a child's plastic muskoka chair. The chair looks like a wooden one with small openings between each slat. Sophia had found that if she held a domino at a precise angle, it would fit through the slat and fall below. She was entranced.
Then, I moved the domino box under the hole, so the dominoes would fall into the box. She was thrilled!
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