Stacking blocks

I try not to pay too much attention to all the milestone charts and what Julia should be doing when. But lately I have been reading a lot about stacking blocks. Apparently they are supposed to be able to stack so many blocks by 18 months and so many more by 2 years, etc.. Julia is not really big into blocks. She has wooden blocks and nesting blocks that stack, but does not really show much interest in them.

So Saturday night I wanted to see if Julia could stack blocks if she wanted to. So I got out the nesting stacking blocks. I stacked about 3 of them to get her interested, then handed her the next one. She stacked it right on top, where it was supposed to go. So I gave her the next one, again she stacked it. So this went on until the block tower got taller than her and she could no longer reach the top to stack the last couple of blocks on. I guess stacking blocks is not a problem!!! BUT Julia had the most fun knocking the tower down!! From then on she refused to stack the blocks, but wanted ME to stack the blocks so she could knock them over!!

The small wooden blocks met the same fate. They were fun to dump out of the bag and all over the floor, but after that they were too boring....