Cooking

Last week Henry was getting underfoot while I was cooking dinner, so Grandma gave him a pot and a spoon so he could cook too -- and he actually pretended to cook.

  

This was one of those parenting moments that is utterly ordinary but nonetheless mind-blowing.  Obviously every kid plays pretend at some point, but we hadn't seen it with Henry until he said he was cooking rice and it tasted yummy.  Developing an imagination seems like a major cognitive milestone.  He is more and more of a big kid every day.