3 months
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6 months
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1 year
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Turn their heads toward bright colors and lights
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Recognize bottle or breast
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Respond to their mother's voice
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Make cooing sounds
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Bring their hands together
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Wiggle and kick with arms and legs
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Lift head when on stomach
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Become quiet in response to sound, especially to speech
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Follow moving objects with their eyes
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Turn toward the source of normal sound
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Reach for objects and pick them up
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Play with their toes
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Help hold the bottle during feeding
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Recognize familiar faces
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Imitate speech sounds
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Roll over
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Get to a sitting position
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Stand briefly without support
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Crawl
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Imitate adults using a cup or telephone
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Play peek-a-boo and patty cake
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Wave bye-bye
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Put objects in a container
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Make "ma-ma" or "da-da" sounds
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18 Months
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2 Years
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3 Years
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Like to push and pull objects
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Say at least six words
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Follow simple directions
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Pull off shoes, socks, and mittens
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Can point to a picture that you name in a book
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Feed themselves
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Make marks on paper with crayons
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Walk without help
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Walk backwards
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Point, make sounds and try to use words to ask for things
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Use two-to-three-word sentences
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Say about 50 words
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Recognize familiar pictures
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Kick a ball forward
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Feed themselves with a spoon
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Demand a lot of your attention
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Turn two or three pages together
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Identify hair, eyes, ears, and nose by pointing
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Show affection
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Throw a ball overhand
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Ride a tricycle
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Put on their shoes
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Open the door
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Turn one page at a time
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Play with other children for a few minutes
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Repeat common rhymes
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Use three -to-five-word sentences
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Name at least one color correctly
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4 Years
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5 years
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Remember
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Use five to six word sentences
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Go up and down stairs without support
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Throw a ball overhand
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Understand the concept of counting and may know a few numbers
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Draw a person with two to four body parts
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Recall parts of a story
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Begin to have a clearer sense of time
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Understand the concepts of "same" and "different"
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Imagine that many unfamiliar images may be "monsters"
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Use more than five words in a sentence
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Like to sing dance and act
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Aware of gender
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Can count 10 or more objects
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Tell longer stories
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Say name and address
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Hops, somersaults, swings, climbs
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Draw people with bodies
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Print some letters
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Dress and undress without help
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Use fork, spoon and (sometimes) a table knife
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Babies develop at their own pace, so it's impossible to tell exactly when your child will learn a given skill. The developmental milestones here will give you a general idea of the changes you can expect, but don't be alarmed if your own baby's development takes a slightly different course.
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