There’s this toy that I… I mean the kids… have been playing with a lot lately. It’s Magneatos! It’s very simple—just a bunch of magnetic rods and joints—but the possibilities are endless and it’s almost therapeutic for a geometry geek like me. Squares, triangles, hexagons! Pyramids, tetrahedrons, cubes! And of course, the cool stuff on the box that I like to… I mean that Anna likes to… build by looking at the picture. Over the past few weeks she’s gotten better at looking at the picture and figuring out what comes next. That’s some kind of good spacial-relations skill, right?

Anna now knows lots of shapes, including the difference between a square pyramid and a triangular pyramid. Sarah likes to play with them too, even though she isn’t trying to build things yet. She’s pretty good at tearing them down, though, and putting the blocks back in the box when we’re done. :)

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