This Toddler...

Jaxon is quite the toddler. First, the milestone: he is now in a big boy bed. :) My sister-in-law, Kami (who has also saved us HUNDREDS of dollars by giving us all her boys' clothes...) gave us a small children's bed frame her husband built for their kids. It's so nice, and Jaxon loves the freedom of just getting up and walking out of his room every morning instead of having to call us to get him.

Question: What do you do with a toddler who loves to see how things work and take them apart? Jaxon's number one "toy" are fans. Any fan or object that moves around in a circle. Ceiling fans, boxed fans, pinwheels, wheels in general, etc. You give him a car and he'll just turn it over and run his fingers across the wheels, or push it against the table and lift it up so he can watch the wheels spin.

Mamita gave him one of those helicopter toys where you pull the string and a propeller lifts off and flies into the air, usually landing on some rooftop. He took apart the hand-held part, and whenever I'd try to put it back together he'd just take it apart again. So we just have the propeller and he loves to spin it around on the floor. Sometimes he'll spin it on the table and then lower himself to eye level so he can actually see it balance as it spins.

He loves to play with a little bedroom fan we have. He'll just turn the switch on and off and watch the propellers start, then stop, and start and stop. It will keep him entertained for at least an hour. We even got him his own hand-held fan (with foam propellers) and he ran the batteries dead within a day. This kid is crazy about fans, and it's been like this for over a year now.

Would you say we possibly have another future mechanical engineer in the family?