B loves puzzles. And we knew that she was pretty good at them because when Gramma and Grampa visited last time they came bearing fun animal puzzles which B completed in about 5 minutes each. Then she did them over and over again for the next few days.
That was last spring and she received another puzzle set for her birthday from Uncle Tony in June; she was very into them for the weeks following her birthday and then she found other pursuits. Just this past week she has been asking to do the wooden puzzles that her uncle got her non-stop. T started explaining how to sort the pieces into an "edge" pile and a "middle piece" pile and how to start from the corners and then do the outside and then fill in the middle. These were 12 piece puzzles and she was getting pretty good at them, but hadn't finished one on her own yet.
Yesterday we were at the toy store and we told the kids they could each pick something inexpensive on the way out. B picked a puzzle featuring Hello Kitty (C picked some cars, suprise surprise), and all T had checked was the price so she was surprised and disappointed when J pointed out that it was a 100 piece puzzle, for ages 5 and up. We spent the rest of the drive explaining to B how it was going to be a very difficult puzzle, that we would help her and that it would likely take much longer than she's used to...maybe even we would need to work on it over the course of a few days. T planned to frame it when they finished because of all the work she thought they would be putting into it.
She was eager to start as soon as we got home and T helped her, starting with sorting the pieces. Much to our surprise, B started putting in pieces in place while T was still sorting and she kept her cool most of the time; rarely getting frustrated, and super excited at each little completed step. The entire puzzle was complete in about 20 min and she couldn't wait to take it apart and start it over again! So it won't be going in a frame any time soon, and she'll probably be doing it without our help before we're even aware of it!
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