Oval

Emma owns a few of the wooden Melissa & Doug shape/color/word puzzles, with handles, that we have been working on since Christmas. From the get-go, she has been able to put the shapes in place and sometimes she says the colors, sometimes she will say circle, but last night she handed me a piece and said, "Oval" all on her own...the piece was oval, so of course we cheered and clapped. I took this opportunity to go through the other shapes, but then all the pieces were oval and Emma said this with a Cheshire Grin. Emma knows exactly what she is doing, being funny. You could see the twinkle in in her eyes and grin, that she knew each shape was not an oval, but was going to say "Oval" anyway because it's not what we wanted her to say.