BUT, even though I can't compare them as far as exact same ages, we have been breaking out lots of R's old toys, and I'm making lots of comparisons in looking at how they play with the same toys and what they like to do with them.
One toy that I pulled out in the last week is this Fisher Price Roll-A-Round Dinosaur that J bought at Once Upon A Child when R was only a couple of months old (the link takes you to a blog post I wrote about this toy when R was 13 months old):
RUS absolutely loves this thing. 
The first time we pulled it out he couldn't stay away from it. I showed him once or twice how to put balls through the holes and he was hooked. He keeps doing it, and I've seen his skill at holding and moving the balls increase exponentially in just the last few days.He will put anything and everything into the dinosaur. The most common non-ball targets are these blocks--they all fit into the big holes at the top of the dinosaur.
He also loves to pull himself up to standing, 
lean over and bite the dinosaur's ruffles as well as the spinning dinosaurs at the top, 
and lots of other stuff too. He just LOVES this toy!Today we were watching him play with it and he was having fun sticking his hands into both ends of one of the holes and trying to peer directly into the hole. It was so cute to watch him trying to maneuver his head in order to see into the hole.
P.S. the other thing that strikes me when I look at the differences in these posts is how much more hair RUS has now than R did at a month and a half older than he is now!!!
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Boys do play differently than girls, don't they?
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