Charles has been particularly fascinated by light switches the last few weeks. He has been fiddling with the light switch next to his changing table for quite a while, since he was about one. It’s just lately that Charles has realized fully that there are many other light switches about the house. He’s been a bit put out to discover that some of them cannot be reached by an unaided two year old boy, but a number of them are set low in the childrens room so that Charles can get at them. He goes around turning them on and off. Sometimes if it’s not obvious he makes me show him where the light goes on and off when he flips the swich. This weekend he discovered the switch for the gas fireplace. He saw it there on the wall and of course started flipping it. he was confused for a bit because he couldn’t see a light go on and off but I eventually convinced him that it controlled the fire. As any parent has already realized, we’ve now had to restrict Charles’ access to the switch so that he doesn’t flip it on and off 20 or 30 times a minute. But at least he’s starting to process object categories.