Some things are forever

Both grandmothers tried to keep various toys and outfits from our childhoods. One has a huge basement and only did one major move since becoming a parent, the other had a parents' attic but moved oh 6 times.

After a busy Saturday, we had a slow Sunday morning. Seb was intrigued by the contents of a trunk that lies behind the sofa. In it, he found these colourful measuring rods. They are an ingenious and fun way to help children learn to manipulate numbers. He caught on immediately and was doing addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and fractions of sorts.

Sophie? Well, she doesn't have the same grasp of numbers and so this may really help. She loves to group them and adores to be asked math questions. It's just that she usually gets them wrong, even the easy-peasy ones. She also in this adorable phase where she must count out every number to be sure that it is still there.

Despite being under strict orders not to treat them as toys but a game (i.e. it loses its fun if you lose its pieces), I hthink the children will have many hours of fun with these bits of wood.

We have been so fortunate thanks to our elders' 'tucking away' habits; this particular time, it's "Thanks, Grandma."