Animal matching

Mini Me sat down one morning to play with our Noah's Ark animals (we love these toys and they have been by far one of the most popular toys at our house for three years).  Not far from him were some opened books, courtesy of Little Lady earlier in the morning.  


A idea struck me and we started on it immediately: matching the toy animal to the animal photo in the book.  


It would prove a bit of a challenge since there were some photos that did not have equivalent toys, and vice versa. 

Mini Me started off great.  We found a second book with good animal pictures and used both books together. 

While he worked, I noticed our barn toy nearby, full of Farmer Nick's barn animals.  I located a page in a book with farm animal photos and we got to work on that, too.  

It's going well!  This was a game Mini Me could do 100% on his own, which we were both proud of.  

Then, he got very stressed out because there were no photos to match to Noah and Farmer Nick.  We spent a good amount of time searching our bookshelf for a book with a photo of Noah and one with a photo of a farmer.  

Finally, everyone is matched up!

Uh oh, the toddler tornado lovely young lady who will admire our hard work  is awake!

Luckily, she felt like neatly putting every animal in the silo.  Thanks for picking up our game, Little Lady!  I bet she will be able to try this game in the near future.