Kid developmental observations

I keep a running text document on each of my kids' developmental landmarks -- although the landmarks I keep track of are probably different from what most parents would record.

All of these are from earlier this week...


The Girl: I noticed that she uses the word “either”, as in “This pen doesn’t work, either”. A fairly advanced concept, really.

Boy #2: Noticed that with his blue toy cell phone, he’ll pick it up, hold it to the side of his face, and say “Heya”. (I could be wrong about the phonetics; this is from memory. Did this twice within a few minutes, so unlikely to be just a coincidence – instead, it looks like he’s mimicking our behavior (we only have cordless phones in the house, so probably modellilng a cordless phone, rather than a cell phone).

Boy #2: Over the last few days, has regularly crawled into his sister's room, bypass the other stuff on the floor, and head straight to her drum kit, where he’ll grab the brown toy drumsticks; sometimes he’ll hit things with them, and other times he’ll crawl directly off, clutching both in one hand. Has a more effective (better-balanced) grip on them than Boy #1 (or even his older sister!), naturally grabbing them around the ¾ mark, rather than at the very end like his sibs tend to do.


--GG