Luke turned 0.5 year old three days ago. Happy 1/2 year, Luke boy!
What can baby Luke do nowadays?
Gross motor
- Lifts head and chest off the ground when lying on tummy by pushing up on extended arms
- Rolls over side to side (back to tummy and tummy to back) easily
- Rocks and kicks a lot
- Rolls around in delight
- Sits with support and a straight back briefly, using hands on floor for balance and support
- Bears weight on legs, bounces when held erect
- Likes seeing the world when standing
Fine motor
- Uses one-handed purposeful grasp to shake, bang, put object in mouth, then finally drop it
- Enjoys dropping objects repeatedly to learn the noises they make
- Uses whole hand to rake in and pick up small object
- Regularly reaches for objects out of reach
Talking and understanding
- Makes four or more distinct sounds (vowels and consonants)
- Laughs in response to something
- Searches for sound by turning his head
- Changes behaviour when listening to sound and human conversation
- Babbles and "talks" to toys and to himself in mirror
- Understands speech by the tone of people's voice
- Recognizes names, basic words, familiar household sounds
- Enjoys manipulating other people's faces by poking, pulling and studying them to understand his separateness from them
Social
- Enjoys and responds to play
- Anticipates touch or being lifted
- Turns head to people
- Very sociable - smiles, laughs hilariously, and enjoys being with people
- May be more selective about with whom he socializes
- When he can't do something, may become frustrated and whines
- Smiles at himself in the mirror
- Very curious to explore the world around him
- Appears to make decisions when choosing to play with toys
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