Cause and Effect

It's so interesting to watch Eli learn. It started when we put him in his bouncy saucer seat and he started playing with all the little toys around him. Then we put a stretchy toy on the arm of his car seat and he started pulling that down. Yesterday, Michelle was playing with him and he had a toy that made music every time he pushed a button. So, he pushed the button and Michelle screamed "Yay Eli!!!!!!" He did that a couple more times, and when Michelle stopped saying "Yay, Eli" he looked at her like "You need to say 'Yay Eli' because I just pressed the button that makes music." I think he's really learning about cause and effect, so today I think I am going to talk to him about a slippery slope and how an assumption that one event inevitably leads to specific results when the causal chain is unclear is a logical fallacy. He's 5 months old now, I'm pretty sure he's ready for this talk by now.