Hello dear readers : )
My goodness I haven't written a blog update in quite a while but what I have been keeping is a little log about Freyas development so let me share this with you!
Before I do that, I'd just like to say I had a lovely mothers day - breakfast in bed and a roast dinner with all the Taylors at home, it was fab! I feel blessed that Freya makes this day a happy one!
So lets have a look at Freyas 18 month development
Actions:
- Can walk (15 months, little late starter!)
- Shakes hands if you say "hello Freya, nice to meet you" (16 months)
- Nods head for yes, shakes head for no.
- Gives a high five
- Babbles on the telephone / says hi and bye
- Brushes hair
- Brushes teeth
- Puts a finger to her lips and says Shhh (mostly after tucking teddies up to sleep!)
- Strums the guitar when handed a plectrum, plucks if not
- claps hands
- throws a ball
- climbs the stairs (supervised of course!)
- gets down safely
- Fetches objects such as books, remote, slippers, socks etc when asked
- Wiggles her nose when prompted
- Dances to music
- Feeds herself using a spoon and fork (10 months for spooning yoghurt)
- Puts sunglasses on and looks in mirror then puts glasses on us and points for us to look in the mirror.
- Knows her own reflection (around 10 months)
- Shares
- Hugs and kisses all cuddly toys
- Tries to dress herself and teddies
Every Thursday we go to Tiny Talk sign language classes where we learn British Sign Language to aid with communication before words can be spoken. We have been going since Freya was 15 months old and she can do the following signs:
- Milk (and says mik)
- Food / eat
- Raisins
- Drink,( and says dink)
- All gone ( says gone)
- Baby (says baba)
- Nappy
- Cold (says col)
- Hat (says ha)
- Play
- Phone
- Book
- House
- Teeth (says teee)
- Sleep / Bed
- Car ( says vroom)
- Grass
- Plane
- Rain
- Bird
- Cat
- Dog
- Duck (says quack)
- Lion (can roar)
- Giraffe
- Pig
Some other spoken words:
- Mamma
- Dadda
- Hot
- what's this?
- Oggy (for dog)
- Shoe
- Cat
Getting dressed - if I ask her to, Freya can do the following
- Places leggings over her legs / Places socks over her feet / Puts one arm in a cardigan - at least she's beginning to understand where the clothing items go!
- Tries to take coat off when I ask her to
- Puts a hat on
- Gets her shoes when I say it's time to go outside
Play time:
- Kisses, cuddles, tries to feed and gives her dummy to teddies
- Plays peek-a-boo
- pulls funny faces
- Stacks 3-4 wooden blocks
- Holds pencils and crayons properly to scribble (on everything!!)
- draws lines and circles (circles are a new thing!)
- Pretends to play her guitar
- knows the actions to "round and round garden", "wind the bobbin up", twinkle twinkle" and more recently she has been learning "head, shoulders, knees and toes" to which she can get some of the actions right.
Following instructions:
- Points to relatives named in photographs (11 months - mum and dad, can now show uncles, grandparents and my friend Karen)
- Put arms in the air
- Stand up
- Spin around
- Sit down
- Get a book / dummy / blanket / spoon / nappy / sun glasses / toys
- Points to her head, nose, eyes, ears, tummy, feet, knees, teeth, tongue, mouth
- Lays down when told to sleep - I miss the days when I'd cuddle her to sleep, now Freya points to the cot when she's ready to be put in!
Freya knows the following objects, she points to them when asked to in a book:
- Socks
- Trousers
- Plane
- Duck
- Baby
- Shoes
- Ball
- Bunny
- Fish
- Brush
- Potty
- Bath
- Slippers
- Teddy
- Book
- Cot
- Grapes
- Broccoli
- Banana
- Carrots
- Tomato
- Tree
- Butterfly
- Dress
- Hat
- Horse
- Pig
- Cow
She is the most awesome little person and I love her very much! X
