Yesterday we bought toby his first puzzles. One of them makes animal sounds when you pull out the pieces. We’ve concluded that perhaps one reason this puzzle is for ages 2 and up is that the pictures of the animals are made of paper. Toby has so far managed to dissolve a duck and part of a cow in his mouth. We also bought a puzzle of wooden animals, one for each letter of the alphabet. For example, vulture for V, iguana for I, and unicorn for U. It was made in sri lanka. I wonder if they still have unicorn in sri lanka; naturally, I had assumed they were extinct everywhere. In any case, there are a few animals that are giving us trouble, which is unsettling since I have PhD in zoology. Jon on
the other hand has a PhD in neuroscience, so it’s understandable that he’s stumped. For example, there are a number of animals that start with N, like narwhal, nilgai, noolbenger, numbat, and nutria, none of which look like a tiny yellow bird. Q is also a tiny yellow bird, which leads me to assume that sri lanka is a magical land full of yellow birds and unicorn. We might have to visit, if only to get this puzzle figured out. Something else we find unsettling is that the puzzle smells like cheese. We’ve washed it twice. But toby sure likes taking apart (and, of course, eating) his sri lankan cheese puzzle, maybe he’s just telling us he’s ready to sample some french cheese.
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