Puzzle flashback

Owen LOVES to do puzzles.  He is quite good at them too.  I also LOVED to do puzzles as a child.  I actually still love a good puzzle...  Whenever my kids ask me to help them put together one of the 100 or 150 piece puzzles  - I end up finishing it when they get bored and leave the table.  I can't just stop, I have to see it through.

When I was a toddler, my Dad would like to trick me.  He'd turn the pieces over to try to stump me.  It never worked.  I always figured out where they went.  One morning, as Owen was doing this shapes puzzle - he completed it once, then dumped it out to do it again.  The second time he didn't turn the pieces over to match the colored shapes to the colored spaces - he knew exactly where they went, without flipping them over.  And all this -  made me think of my dad :)  I'm grateful I have a great Dad - who spent time with me as a child doing puzzles, reading books, and grossing us out while trying to teach his girls to fish...