Build up

We were mildly concerned at Zachary's doctor appointment last month when the nurse asked a series of questions about which activities Zachary was currently capable of doing and we had to say no to many of the asks. The doctor dispelled our worries by explaining that these are all just milestones, and they wouldn't be worth asking about (or would be cause for actual concern) if they were things that all kids his age were capable of doing -- everyone does them in his or her own time.

Which leads us to the last two days - one of those questions had been "does he stack blocks?". On Friday or Saturday, Meh had flipped over his trainset toy tabletop, which has one of those oversized Lego-like things on the underside. On Saturday, he was picking up the legos and slamming them down on the table, only occasionally getting them settled in a 'correct' position. Yesterday, he was having more success, and when I looked over, he was suddenly building towers nearly as tall as himself! He got more and more accurate and sophisticated with his lego placement, fixing blocks that were misbalanced, and built several precarious towers over the course of the afternoon, getting very upset when one would accidentally get knocked over before he was done, and mildly frustrated when the rounded dog- and cat-faced top pieces (which don't have the connectors on top to continue to build up) couldn't be stacked on each other. Quite the change from when he used to be all about knocking blocks over. Oh, and he's still managing to reach under the table and play with the upside-down train track toys too. Now where's the milestone for playing upside down?