Abby Doing the Perplexus

Last year, I got a Perplexus maze game.  Abby played with it on and off, but it was pretty tough for her.  They now came out with a Perplexus game for younger kids.  Knowing how much Abby liked the original, my mom get her this new one for Christmas.

She LOVES it.  She plays with it on average an hour or so a day.  She doesn't devote that much time to any other toy.  We've been trying to be very encouraging with her so she sticks with it.

I honestly have no idea how she is so good at it.  It's surprising for her age I think.  On the old one, she was able to get to the 8th position or something.  Her current record on this one is 27 (the course is marked with numbers....the end is 70).  The other day she ended up somewhere around 45.  She either got lucky and got past the really hard part around number 30 (even Peggy hasn't beaten this part yet!), or the ball jumped the track and she skipped it.  It does jump the track occasionally (falls off and just happens to land farther along in the track) so she's actually gotten to the finish at least 10 times.  It so funny, because she looks up at us, startled and so proud of herself for getting (although illegitimately) to the end.