First off, my son turned 1 year old in March and hasn’t came into any contact with a child his age or younger. It was interesting to see his take on another child, his own age but female. She was a bit more of a bully then he is, he’s more of the fourth child and acts his part. You know the one that has all the older siblings give him things so he never even asks.

This little girl wanted his new elmo toy he’d just got in the mail that day. He didn’t know how to say no or even ask for it back. Course she definitely did. She demanded the toy and later when she had a ball and he tried playing turns (as we call it when we bounce it back and forth) she screamed “NO!” He stood in shock and wanted back in his stroller. I guess this is his comfort when things don’t go his way. Anytime he sees her he shys away now. Poor guy.

However, he seems to be able to get along fine with another child that was in the area this week. There was a little boy that was deaf and no one else was playing much with, however he took a liking to the boy and the two got along great playing cars and following each other. Neither one spoke, but there was so much understanding between the two. I think many of us adults forget that words don’t always have to be spoken, I know many moms stress when their children aren’t saying words by a certain age. This proved more that actions really do speak louder than words.

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But it hit me today on how much he’s learned and how much he does by experimenting. We’ve been sitting in our playroom for over an hour now and he’s having a ball. Yes, he has a play area upstairs but not as many toys are up there. Down in this room it is wall to wall in kids items, you’ve got board books, an animal bag, baby blankets, soft toys, blocks, stuffed animals and more in one room. There is a smaller room off to the side that has the “older toys” in it, this way the older siblings can play in there without Little A trying to eat everything.

Today though, I noticed that he now picks and chooses. He was going through the toy box of dolls and stuffed animals and tossing them all, but he stuck with two that I think he really likes, a baby doll (the newborn types with no hair that normally come with a pacifier) and a small stuffed bear with a red shirt. Both of these he loved on. I thought how cute, I would’ve taken a picture but he stops every time he sees the camera. I wanted to experiment and tried giving him a cabbage patch with hair, he does not like the dolls with hair.

We’ve got a small child’s rocking chair in the room, he’s figured out how to hold on to the bars on the back of the chair to pull himself into it. Yep, already and at that point he’ll grin and laugh. He knows momma will jump from what she’s doing to be beside him, course he thinks it is to push him. We all know momma is worried he’ll fall out. I never showed him how to get into this chair, before today I would just sit him in it and rock it.

He loves emptying out all the toy boxes, course I think he really likes making messes for momma to clean up. What do you think? Does your child tend to dump out the boxes or are they ones that try keeping everything clean and tidy? I’ve had both types.

So, the next time you have a moment watch your child and see what items he/she picks up and plays with. Or just watch them do something and think whether or not you taught them that or if he/she picked it up themselves. While I know children are smart and teach themselves by doing, it is always neat to sit back and watch. Well my little adventurer has decided it is time to eat so I better sign off.

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