The best $4.00 I ever spent!

If there's one thing these girls can't get enough of, it's puzzles! Sometimes we have four going all at once at different spots around the house, and as they walk by they stop and work on them. Other times they just get into the puzzle zone and will sit and work on puzzles for an hour straight without talking. Our coffee table ALWAYS seems to have a puzzle going on at all times!

Larkin started out doing the 24 piece puzzles, and I knew it was time to get her harder puzzles when I found her spilling out two puzzles at the same time and then solving them both simultaneously. We gradually worked our way up the puzzle difficulty charts and last week bought a 150 piece puzzle. I helped Larkin with it the first time, and then swore I would never help her with this puzzle again! I don't have the patience to sit and find all the right pieces and got frustrated after about an hour. She can do it by herself now though and is so proud of herself for doing a "big girl" puzzle.

Larkin in her favorite puzzle spot.

Willa loves to do Richard Scarry puzzles. They are bright colored and have a lot of different things going on in them, which makes them easy to put together. The first few times she did puzzles solo she would squeal and grin every time she snapped a piece into place-it was so cute!

It's been interesting to see how the two of them attack puzzles so differently. Willa is very picture oriented and will look at the picture on the box when searching for the right piece. She'll say things like, "See here, Mama? I need the rabbit's ears. They're missing." She almost always works the puzzle as a whole unit and does not break it up into smaller sections. Larkin has never been one to refer to the picture regularly, and likes to piece together smaller portions and then combine them later.