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Happy Birthday!!!
This is the first time that an infant gets to experience the world and interact with their parents. -
Physical Development - Month 13-15
- May stand alone without support for short time
- Cruises along furniture
- May climb out of crib, highchair, or stroller
- Has improved grasping skills
- Enjoy is filling and emptying containers with small objects
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Intellectual Development - Month 13-15
- Notices actions of other children and adults. Loves to mimic all actions
- Explores different features of objects as if studying them
- Slowly increase his vocabulary to 4 to 6 words
- May attempt to imitate words others say
- Responds to own name when called
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Physical Development - Month 16-18
- Squats down smoothly from a standing position
- Jumps with both feet
- Shows hand preference in all activities
- Adds hand gestures to spoken language
- Works jigsaw puzzles with 1-2 pieces
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Intellectual Development - Month 16-18
- May stand alone without support for short time
- Cruises along furniture
- May climb out of crib, highchair, or stroller
- Has improved grasping skills
- Enjoy is filling and emptying containers with small objects
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Physical Development - Month 19-21
- Runs without falling often
- Loves to run, jump, and climb
- Holds two objects in hand easily
- Can fold piece of paper once imitating demonstration
- Uses one hand more than the other
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Intellectual Development - Month 19-21
- Progresses from simple imitation to imaginative play
- Likes to make marks on paper with big crayon
- Has a vocabulary of about 20 words
- Constantly asks "What's that?"
- Matches sounds to the animal that makes them
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Physical Development - Month 22-24
- Climbs everywhere indoor even in forbidden places
- Kicks ball forward
- Throws ball overhead but without aiming
- Opens doors by turning knobs
- Can soap hands and arms easily
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Intellectual Development - Month 22-24
- Is better able to use nearby objects in make believe games
- Likes to listen to tapes and records of stories and songs
- Is able to interpret pictures drawn or painted
- Vocabulary starts at 200 words and increases to 500 or more in this period
- Enjoys leaning names for new objects
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Physical Development - Month 25-30
- Likes to take jar lids off and screw them back on
- Can carefully turn pages of book one page at a time
- Tears paper and manipulates clay
- Climbs on jungle gym with fair amount of ease
- Plays on swings ladders and other playground equipment
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Intellectual Development - Month 25-30
- Uses two word sentences
- Uses words to make requests
- Understands a few prepositions such as out in on.
- Solves problems by imitating past actions
- Distinguishes between before and after
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Intellectual Development - Month 30-36
- Begins to classify objects into general categories
- Tries out various roles in make-believe play
- Becomes more skilled in putting puzzles together
- Vocabulary starts at 500 words and increases 900 or 1000 in this period
- Starts to use past tense and plurals
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Physical Development - Month 31-36
- Sits in an adult chairs and may prefer these to smaller chairs
- Throws ball overhead but aim is still poor
- Catches large ball with arms and hands out straight
- Builds towers of six or more blocks
- Takes objects apart and puts them back together
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Happy 3rd Birthday!!!
This marks the end of toddlerhood and the beginning of childhood. Videos:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msJ9KDxGZOs
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_S8bAPgKDw
