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You already know how important playtime is to your developing toddler. Playtime is a special time for you and your child to enjoy each other and show love for one another. Play is how your child learns the best and he learns by watching you. Through play, children learn about their world. They learn how things work and they learn how to use their body to make things work. Children learn about the way items feel, fit, stack, look, fall and move. Playing games with your child will encourage them to share and take turns. You should encourage your child to play and set things up to make playtime easy for your toddler. Keep a container of toys in various rooms of the house so that he can play near you. If his toys will be in his room, place toys on low shelves or open containers or toy boxes so that he can easily find what he would like to play with. Encourage a variety of types of play and change his toys out perioically to avoid boredom.

Continue teaching your child about words, but begin putting words into action. Be descriptive. Talk to your toddler while you drive about fast cars or noisy trains. While you are cooking, explain that the stove is hot or the bacon makesa sizz;ing sound when it cooks. This will develop your toddler's vocabulary and teach him about different objects.

At this point, your toddler has most, but not all, of her teeth. Because she doesn't have all of her teeth, be cautious about foods that could potentially choke her. Choking on food is a real danger for children this age and a real scare for parents and caregivers. Foods that children most often choke on are: hot dogs, grapes, candies, nuts, popcorn and lollipop. Other than the grapes and nuts, none of these foods are nutritious. Hot dogs and grapes should be cut into small, bite size pieces-quartered is the best. Never cut them into full circles because the pieces can get stuck in your toddler's throat.

Children respond well to routines. Establish a feasible schedule and routine that you and your child can both stick to. Ding things in the same routine each day will give your child a sense of security and she will learn and anticipate what comes `next`. Plan to eat breakfast, lunch, dinner and any snacks at the same time each day. Quiet time, naptime and bedtime should also be at the same time each day. Until your toddler adapts to the schedule, remind him what comes next. You can also include other routines such as: getting a bath and getting dressed after breakfast each day, outside time, brushing teeth after breakfast and before bed and other routines that are important in your family.

Developmental Milestones - 22 Months Old

Physical

• Uses one hand more than the other
• Can stand on one foot with help
• Dances
• Jumps

Intellectual

• Imitates everything
• Obeys directions
• Asks for things by names
• Likes to hear stories
• Tries to repeat nursery rhymes
• Can point to five body parts
• Builds towers of 4-5 blocks

Emotional

• Curious about other people
• Begins to be sympathetic for others
• Shows love and affection easily
• Demanding at times
• Feelings are easily hurt

Age Appropriate Toys

• Pretend play
• Dress up
• Simple art and crafts
• Ride on toys
• Linking beads
• Building materials
• Balls
• Book

Comments:

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Bri - Wednesday, 23 Sep
Seriously, I'm sure this is my hormones talking but I can't wait to get off the 22month page. The fact that I have to go to a different month so I can click on the numbers rather then just once on the photo is killing me. I know one more step but really? I asked admin to fix it at the beginning of the month and nothing was ever done about it. Grr! It is usually in my drop down because I come here so often but any time my computer gets shut down it erases it....which has been often cause the little man likes the sleep button. Ugh!

doublemama - Wednesday, 23 Sep
3rd..tapas sound so yum. i needa find a good place here to go to, havent been on a date with hubby that didnt involve other couples in toooo long. bita your trip to your family sounds fun. hope you all start feeling better soon. we have been passing around a cold as well. seems like its gonna be a harsh winter. bri good job on all the cleaning and organizing! i needa get inspired by u lol the under the stairs closet is crazy as well as the kids rooms closets. my closet and bathroom is a recurring problem as well lol. im just too tired to do anything about it!

shelly32 - Wednesday, 23 Sep
so cute had to share: jack was playing with a doctor thermometer and was yelling 'caliente' and 'frio' and i looked at what he had and realized what he was saying...spanish for Hot and Cold...good 'ol Diego...who says kids don't learn from tv? haha - actually speaking of which we got jack the leapfrog tag reader and it's awesome...he'll sit for 15 minutes or more at a time and use it - they also have a tag junior which is recommended more for the age 2-4 but we got the regular tag reader since he is so gentle with books...def worth the money!

Bri - Wednesday, 23 Sep
I don't think it's nesting. I'm not doing anything in the nursery. I haven't bought a new crib or anything. It's more like this is a new house and I NEED to get things accomplished before Baby arrives. I doubt I'll be much help after that. Plus, I only have a short time left before I won't be able to move. People keep saying it's nesting. I'm saying it's staying sane in a new house. Oh and I went through a bit of depression early on and I've found that as long as I'm doing something productive I'm not sad and angry. So, I've been finding everything I can do to stay sane.

3rdtimer - Wednesday, 23 Sep
Bri nice work on the cleaning out! You really have the pregnant nesting thing going. It feels so good to get those things achieved.

3rdtimer - Wednesday, 23 Sep
Bita - sorry you've all been sick! Good to 'hear your voice' though haha. Are you on Facebook? A bunch of us are on there too and it can be a quick way of checking in on people sometimes. If you are, we can send you messages to let you know our real names so you can find us. ***** Bek glad you had a nice evening and might be getting to do some more of that in the future! Andy gets quite a lot of free tickets to theatre things which is nice but then it is a matter of getting babysitting. So, he often goes alone or takes a friend while I stay home. We do get out a bit though but more often it's individually. It's my birthday on Sunday and Andy has been racking his brains for something to get me but I just said all I really want is to go out to dinner with him. It seems like forever since we've done that. He said he saw there's a new place opening nearby that does Spanish tapas and jamon (thin spanish ham) so we might try to go there and relive memories of our Spain trip :-) ****** Well fortunately Clem seems to have made a miraculous recovery from his fever yesterday. And the sun seems to be coming out. Looks like we might have a nice day together. Bek I did hear about the mega dust storms and saw the pics of the Sydney Opera House etc. Freaky! Ugh must be awful to have that dust through everything.

Bri - Wednesday, 23 Sep
I am sooo tired. I cleaned my garage finally. Well, all I could do. I have to wait until 'someone' put the hi-lift up in the garage before I can finish cleaning it. There is still four boxes of crap that need to be sorted and mostly thrown out. But, geez! I'm exhausted now. We are sooo sooo close to be able to fit both cars in there. Actually if we did have just cars they would both fit but since I had a sport trac it's going to be a little more tim. My legs and lower back are killing me. I'm so happy it's past 4. A few more hours before Joe gets home. I could fall asleep. Maybe we'll go out in the backyard soon. That way I can lay on a blanket in the shade while Kekoa runs around like a mad man. HAHA! We've got a lot done today. Tomorrow I need to actually clean the downstairs. My sister in law is spending the night tomorrow. We have a bunch of the Great Uncles and Aunts flying in because they are going on a cruise leaving Friday morning. Sooo, we are all going downtown for dinner tomorrow. Can't wait to see all of them. They are awesome and think Kekoa is the pride of the family. HAHA! I need a foot rub!

Bita1588 - Wednesday, 23 Sep
Ugh, I haven't been on it what seems like forever!! I've been pretty sickly lately, first the hubby was sick while I was out of town, then Brandon got it the day before I was to come home, then my SIL got it, then MIL, now me, and my cousin...we all have it, lol. Honestly I think I'm the best though, my SIL, MIL and cousin had to stay from work b/c they felt so bad, but mine is just mainly sinuses and such and i've been able to push through, I don't know its weird, I am off until Saturday so hopefully I will be over it by then. I am exhausted though, that is one thing I do not like about being sick, the exhaustion. Wow, its already the 23rd...Brandon will be 23 months in three days...EEKS!! For his birthday we are still going to visit my family so that is definitely something that I will be looking forward too, but I will only get to stay for about a week b/c I have to go to Denver the week after. I can't get over that September is almost over!! Ugh, time is flying by. Well, Brandon won't leave the cereal alone so I have to go, glad everyone seems to be getting better.

Bek 30 - Wednesday, 23 Sep
On another note I had a fantastic evening. A company that Jason's boss gets things thru ( ie, hire of drots, barriers, fencing and other big machinery sent out invites to all the major player companies that keep them in business...anyway Jasons company was invited, so they sent Jason and I to represent them. Anyway they hired out the whole cinema complex, and we watched Charlie and boots...such a funny movie, Jason was cackling like an old rooster..lmao, then after the movie had finished we went upstairs where they had caterers and we were served dinner and all the top shelf alcahol that u could drink for free ( pity I was driving), we only stayed for a while, I felt so uncomfortable amongst billionaires...snooty rich women walking about with a pout on their face, nose in the air, handbag at their elbow, it was humiliating and daunting being around ppl like them, and of coarse not 1 person looked in our direction..Jay kept an arm around me all night,..actually he his behind me...lol, but I did enjoy myself if it makes sense..and we were so well behaved that it will be Jason and I representing the company in future ( his been made a foreman so they started us off on something small to get us used to it..lol), then we came home..end ended up really having a night to remember...hehehehe, it has never been so good since we first got together..hahaha

Bek 30 - Wednesday, 23 Sep
3rd: It only rained here a bit last night, then just before the dust storm at 5am it rained again..so u can imagine the state of EVERYTHING, the dust stuck to everything like glue...and of coarse it ended up being the outback red dust, it was horrendous, and hubby won't let me take my car thru the car wash..so he promised to wash it himself..hehehe..as it is once all this over the house is gonna need to be hosed along with fences and everything else..and as far as my all day spring cleaning the other day, I am gonna have to start again..grr all the red dust got inside also... did it show Sydeny on the news over where u r? Jasons boss made the boys work out in, and apparently they were all throwing up for the entire day, 1 of the boys told the boss he was the biggest so and so and so and so he has ever met in his life..apparently the guy is a severe asthmatic, so that didn't go down to well... but we still have the severe wind storms, and we only just got our power back on a few hours ago...I just can't beleive it has gone thru 4 states..and poor QLD has the fires along with it...lets hope it all stops very very soon..poor Katy was a nightmare today, all she wanted to do was get outside, the animals wanted in and my house is trashed...she was so bored...poor baby.

Bri - Tuesday, 22 Sep
Just laid Kekoa down. I'm pooped! HAHA! I took my glucose test today. Hopefully it's negative. I have to go start the dishwasher and put away dinner but then I'm relaxing with TV. I need to go to bed before 10 tonight. Maybe with lots of sleep I won't need a nap tomorrow and can work on the garage while Kekoa naps. Good plan, it just might work....might being the key word.

3rdtimer - Tuesday, 22 Sep
J&Z - that's a shame that Zack's second set of grommets has already fallen out! Jasper had them put in at around 3 years old and they stayed in about 2 or 3 years. I guess because they're not growing so rapidly at that age. I hope Clem's stay in a while. He came down with a fever last night and has been pretty sad today. I hope it passes quickly. I guess at least it's this week not next, because next Wednesday is when he goes in for the grommets surgery. Gotta look on the bright side....

3rdtimer - Tuesday, 22 Sep
Bri that's crappy about your credit card and I think they just rely on enough people not actually checking on these things. Sneaky. Good on you for switching. My phone company switched to monthly billing from quarterly, which is a real pain, and I think the only reason was so they could charge more people overdue fines more often. But, I haven't had the time or energy to find something better to switch to yet.

3rdtimer - Tuesday, 22 Sep
Bek I hope you get some decent rain rather than the dust storms and wind, ugh. We have had heaps of rain here and a few bits of flooding as you have obviously heard about. Our house is never really in any danger of flooding but some of the streets nearby look a real mess as the water has flown over footpaths and the um verges or whatever you call them and dragged sand and grit and stuff onto the roads. It's just such a shame we don't do more stormwater harvesting because sometimes I look down the road and think I'm probably seeing my whole household's water use for a year flowing down the gutter in a few seconds. Out north they have been returning stormwater to the aquifers and brought some back up and discovered it is clean and drinkable. Why can't we do more of that? We have more wetlands now for it to soak back into the water table but there is still a ridiculous amount of stormwater running off the city and into the sea. Sorry girls for those of you not coming from places as dry as some parts of Australia, this is probably really boring, but it is a constant worry for us here. They are building a desalination plant here in Adelaide for future water supplies but in reality more rain actually falls on Adelaide than we use for domestic supply. We just need smarter ways of capturing that rather than all the potential environmental problems that go with a desal plant. Sorry for my rant!

Bek 30 - Tuesday, 22 Sep
3RD: We got ure storm last night, and now we are in a terriable dust storm..we had to hose our cars off, our verendah concrete has now gone from that nice color to a disgusting brown.. I ended up keeping Dylan home from school cause his asthma, my dog went mental, so she had a bath and is now inside, omg a feral puppy and a feral toddler just don't mesh together...lol. Katy has been saying stop when someone annoys her, more, last night she went up to daddy and kept saying bottle...in the end she says bottle NOW..lol, since day care she has been getting a vocab, it is so cute when they say new words..oh well I might as well go lay in bed with my kids, can't go outside (until mum gets home then I have to check on the cattle and horses and make sure no fences r down), but till then I dont dare go outside, even to the shops, it's a nightmare out their..they described it as earth fire and water today..grrr go away wind!!!!

Bri - Tuesday, 22 Sep
Ok I just want to say Citi-Cards is so stupid! I've been a customer for 10years. I just got my statement and they jumped me from 14% to 29.99%!! I called. Their reason...Because of the economy they are raising most of their customers. The only way to go back to 14% is to close the account. Now I didn't want to but I did. Too bad. If you have a Citi account please watch your statements closely. They have been in the news about doing this thing. If you are happy with them great but if not close it. I would rather see everyone leave Citi just because of the crap they are trying to pull. Oh and I never miss a payment. Just stupid. Oh well. I am going to get a card from the Navy Credit Union and just do a balance transfer. Then they won't be getting any finance charges on the balance I have. Then oh she had the nerve to tell me that they appreciate my business. No they don't. I have a 800 credit score and have high credit and they do this? BS! HAHA! Anyways, had to rant and tell everyone to be careful with their credit cards and their finance charges. 10 years ago I don't think I would have even noticed but now I'm a little more careful with those things.

shelly32 - Tuesday, 22 Sep
lol jack says 'mommy, help you' when he needs help - mostly because i would always saydo you want mommy to help you? haha..also his way of saying he likes something is, 'you'll like it' haha he got it from green eggs and ham...you'll like it sam I am! haha

doublemama - Tuesday, 22 Sep
lol luv, maryam has that same issue. usually when it comes to drinks. she'll say she wants milk then she'll yell at us that we gave her milk and throw it across the room. then ill get it to put it back n the fridge, n she'll yell at me that im putting it back in the fridge, grab it from me, start drinking it and walk away like nothing happened.

luvbeingamom - Tuesday, 22 Sep
Bek - I would def be upset. Partly b/c of the photos being up and partly b/c my family couldn't respect my wishes. That is terrible and i would be very upset.

luvbeingamom - Tuesday, 22 Sep
Double that is great! I wish Jake would learn those too. He knows 'stuck'. B/c he usually is! haha. He also knows 'no, me and mine'. He won't ask for help and gets mad when you offer to help. Plus at least 1/2 the time he doesn't know what he wants. Like today, i said you want your cereal, he said no, so i put it away and he cried. He was driving me nuts! :-) He also has recently started rolling his eyes at me when ever i say something he doesn't like! Thank God he is cute. I also don't believe in terrible twos, but 4s are def getting challenging. He is to smart for my own good.

doublemama - Tuesday, 22 Sep
i hear its ferocious fours!....i thik they arent terrible without reason. ever since my daughter finished with her molars shes been much less aggressive. i also taught her the words happy, sad, and help. one night when she was in a good mood we just sat n made a bunch of exaggerated happy expressions with our faces, and then a bunch of sad ones so that she'd know what we mean. it has been helping alot cause instead of just throwing a tantrum, she is learning to just express herself by saying shes sad, we ask why, figure it out, and move on. it also works during our playgroup if she is not up for sharing and its making another kid mad, i say look so n so is sad, please make him happy...so now she'll usually find the kid another toy or give up the one she was hogging. 'help' is coming in handy for times when she wants to do something, and is getting frustrated cause she cant do it on her own (again another source for tantrums), now shes learning to just say 'mama help'. it was cute cause she saw an ambulance today so i explained what they are and she wanted us to go help haha.

Bri - Tuesday, 22 Sep
Personally I don't do utube either. It's just not safe. Any photos I have up is protected too. There are just too many nasty people out there. I understand you can't protect your kids from everything but there procaustions that you can take. No Bek, you didn't over react. They are your kids and your siblings need to undestand that.

Bri - Tuesday, 22 Sep
Tammy, I don't believe in the in 'terrible twos' either. I think it's crap. They are exploring their environment and figuring out how to do things. They are also learning more and more how to communicate. Some are better at verbalizing then others which can frustrate a little mind. This can happen at 1, 2, 3 or 4. My mom always said she loved the twos because they were so expressive. She said it was the 4's that we awful. That we were becoming too independant. HAHA! I don't know. I love all the ages!

joeyandzacksmommy2007 - Tuesday, 22 Sep
no u are not over reacting..i am honestly one to let my family see the kids and the videos i make but the nly way they can see the video is thru u tube. they should have your permission to post anything about your kids

Bek 30 - Tuesday, 22 Sep
Grr I am arguing with my sister and brother in-law..damn they piss me off!!!! My first argument was the fact that they allowed their daughter to put pics of me and my kids up on her profile without permission..usually it would not bother me, except they don't care that their daughters profile isn't locked nor r the photos and it has always been mine and Jays decision for his family not to see our pics, and she even tagged us... when I bought it up with my sister, she brushed me off like I shouldn't care....hello we dont want certain ppl seeing the kids....then Jason was cruising u tube tonight, and lo and behold, their r my f#$king kids up their..again my niece....don't they need our permission or something, my kids r minors after all..anyway I rang up and got my BIL and I'm like, why would ure daughter put my kids on u tube? then his like I think ure blowing up over nothing...well then I let him know what blow up really sounds like..... I said mayb u guys don't give a flying #$$% #$#% #@$@# about ure kids, but I never gave anyone permission and if u don't get it down, after Jason comes around and knocks ure head off ure shoulders then I will have u charged....Ooops, can I even do that? They r my kids and I am trying to keep them guarded from Jasons family..pedo's and any other wanker out their...they go on about net safety for kids, but some parents just don't give a shit...thankgod my mum is seeing it from my point of view, cause when mum goes out with my sister tomorrow my poor mum will be getting her ear chewed off...hahaha, oh well I managed to lock my nieces f/b pics...little shit used my computer once and got the computer to save her details...hehehe, but I still had a right to make my feelings known.....am I over reacting???

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