Your baby, 28 months 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 and older

You have probably noticed that your two year old wants to be as independent as possible. She does not realize that she still needs help accomplishing things. Because she wants to be independent, you might feel as though you are constantly battling your child over simple, everyday things. Rarely do the battles end nicely with some sort of compromise. Some of the battles you win and your child gets more frustrated and some your child wins, leaving you feeling angry and defeated. Take a deep breath, there is hope! Try to turn all of the battles into win-win situations. If your child wants to eat snack before naptime, allow her to choose her snack before nap and eat it when she wakes up.

Make-believe play is a fun and healthy part of growing up. Children enjoy being superheroes, doctors, moms, dads, teachers and other fun careers. By providing imaginary play equipment, you can encourage your child to use his imagination and be whatever he chooses to be. Join in the fun and play with your child. You have the power to create your child's imagination. You can even make simple props for pretend play from cardboard boxes, paper bags, construction paper and other ordinary objects.

Special occasions can be alot of fun for two year olds. Your child may be invited to a birthday party, holiday celebration or some other event. Explain to your child where you are going and what she is going do do there. Many two year olds find giving a gift to be hard, because they want the toys for themselves. If your child is going to see Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, show him pictures ahead of time and tell him who it is. Once you get to the event, if your child is hesitant about sitting with Santa or the Bunny, do not force him to visit. Let him see the other children visiting and your child may change his mind. At family events, do not force your child to mingle with family members that he is not accustomed to.

Continue to teach your child about colors, shapes, numbers, letters, animal sounds, body parts and other preschool skills. Two year olds love to do arts and crafts. Encourage him to learn these skills through arts and crafts, songs or dance and movement. Make learning fun for your child.

Developmental Milestones - 28 Months Old

Physical

• Constantly on the go
• Tries to blow bubbles
• Tries to gallop
• Stands on one foot
• Catches a ball-sometimes
• Can jump over objects on the floor

Intellectual

• Recognizes familiar places
• May know what comes next
• Has favourites
• Can brush teeth
• Longer attention span
• Knows body parts

Emotional

• Feelings are hurt easily
• Frequent tantrums
• Gets frustrated easily
• Calls people by their names

Age Appropriate Toys

• Dress up clothes
• Balls
• Books
• Counters/Sorters
• Pretend play sets
• Outside toys
• Art supplies
• Magna-doodles
• Building materials
• Modelling clay
• Alphabet and number toys
• Cars/track

Comments:

Comments 1-25 of about 50 for month 28
1 2 Next

monselena - Wednesday, 11 Nov
Can all you ladies with a myspace account please do me a HUGE favor add simply divine photography to your friends list and then vote for my photo its a school with snow and it says monselena under the caption, I really want to win the $100 free print credit this girl takes awsome pics, but its a little expensaive so Please help me so I can get awsome pics of my little one Thanks in advance www.myspace.com/simplydivinephotography And you can delete her again after you vote please I'am begging for votes

margysd - Monday, 19 Oct
Hi, I just had my second daughter, Aislin on Thursday. My first daughter, Elsa is 16 months. Elsa and I have always had a strong and special bond. Since the birth, I have tried to involve and love Elsa as much as I can. I want to show her that I love her the same, I am just making some adjustments in our schedule which has changed because my time is now divided between her and our newborn. I have noticed some acting out on Elsa’s part and I am not sure how to handle it. We have tried to reassure Elsa how much she is loved and spend a lot of personal time with her one-on-one with both Paul and myself. I think she is acting out because she has realized that her position and role is changing, most notable is her new role as a big sister. I was wondering if any of you have had experience with adjustment issues with closely spaced siblings and what strategies you employed to maintain the bond with the oldest while introducing and bonding the with youngest sibling and if this is a normal adjustment phase that works itself out in time. Please post messages to my page. Thanks so much.

elizabethw - Wednesday, 30 Sep
Hi everyone! I have never been to these pages before, I just joined when I was pregnant with my second and she is 7 months now so I am always down there. Anyway, I have a 2 yr old (Adisen) that will be 28 months on the 2nd and need some desperate advise! What are all of you doing for bedtime? We had to move her into a toddler bed when her baby sister was born and that has not gone so well! She gets out of bed probably 20 times a night. I start bedtime around 8 and she literally doesn't fall asleep until after 11! It is so exhausting putting her back into bed over and over and she is SO tired by the time I have to wake her up in the mornings it is a total meltdown every day. I desperately need help! Between her and my 7 mth old during the night I am getting NO sleep and work full time, so pretty exhausted. Any suggestions would be much appreciated! :)

Baby Jaidalynn - Monday, 14 Sep
Happy 29 Months to all our little toddlers.

rachel j - Wednesday, 9 Sep
Gene-How is school going for Matt Jr? You must be busy-haven't seen you on here lately. Has Alyssa gotten her let braces off yet? How is she doing with Matt at school all day?

rachel j - Wednesday, 9 Sep
Julbroom1-Thanks for trying to vote, I probably wont win but figured I'd give it a try. You never know? Samantha loves being outside too. She is in for a real surprise soon when the weather suddenly gets cold. She asks to go outside every morning as soon as she comes downstairs. I doubt she remembers the snow from last year. I remember feeling guilty last winter at how much TV she watched because we were always stuck in the house, but this summer we hardly turned the TV on. She hadn't watched Sesame Street in over 4 months! I try to give her time outside every day even if it's just for a little while. We just packed away Samantha's sandbox last weekend. We decided to empty it and put it in the basement that way if our home sells in mid-winter we don't have to empty it in the snow. She finally decided she likes her pool-just in time to pack it away! I was hoping to go to the beach one more time, but I don't think it's going to happen unless we get an indian summer here. I haven't packed away her summer stuff yet but I am already pulling warmer clothes out of the plastic buckets I have here waiting to go in her dresser. Samantha has a motorized car but she's not very good at steering it?? She also keeps letting go of the button that makes it go. My hubby wants to get her a bigger motorized one with a pedal and an actual steering wheel for Christmas. Samantha hasn't made any progress on potty training either. But to be honest, I haven't really been working on it with her because we have been so busy working on the house. We spent the entire 3 day weekend working on the house again. We washed the entire outside of the house (vinyl siding) and painted every window on the house, plus cleaned up the yard and garden to make it look nice for when we list it. We were both tired and sore on Tuesday. Samantha tries to help with everything. I give her a unused paint brush and she pretends to paint. So cute. Dave and I take turns watching her so the other one can work on stuff. Sometimes it's just too hard trying to get stuff done because she always wants me to hold her. Does everyone else babies do that still?? I feel like she is getting big to be carried around all the time, but she constantly says "I want Mommy to hold you" I just hope whatever house we move to is move in ready because I am tired of painting and fixing floors,cleaning, etc. I'm sure Trent's hair will grow back in no time. We have clippers for both clipping the dogs hair and I have one for clipping my husbands hair. I am okay at clipping his hair, but terrible at clipping the dogs! I usually hold the dogs and make my husband do all the clipping. Otherwise the dogs always come out with one leg looking really fat and the others looking skinny. lol. Lilly and I didn't know each other were going there. I was there with my parents and she was there with her mom and family. I recognized Jaidalynn as we were walking by. It was so neat to finally meet. We only live about 15 minutes apart.

julbroom1 - Tuesday, 8 Sep
Trent has just been having a blast this summer, loves the outside and we even finally built him a small sand box its reall small we had extra sand from a project...lol I learned if you put his power wheel tractor in the right gear it really cruises, and doesn't get stuck all the time..lol best road side toy I ever picked up..haha He still loves his bed and gives us no issue about going to bed:) Potty training is going nowhere.. Trent screams when we go get his hair cut so he has been so over due, it makes him look like he has a big head, well bought clippers to do a long buzz gee how hard can that be he let us do it for the most part well hubby switched to a lower blade on it well lets just say we will call him patches for a while...lol and gee I have to leave the house to day and go to the store, yikes i don't want it that short so that is why I don't want to buzz it so you don't see it..lol it will grow back , I think this is only the 2nd time I posted on the 28 month page and its almost time to switch again..lol Hope everyone is doing well..

julbroom1 - Tuesday, 8 Sep
Rachel the pictures at the Quassy are awesome, and that is so cool you saw Lilly and Jaidalynn there!!:) It wasn't planned? Hope you painting so all done we need to do more but I don't want to, but it does need to be done...lol I went to the website to vote but for some reason it won't let me go to page 12, I will have to try the other computer later today:)

julbroom1 - Tuesday, 8 Sep
Johleamom sorry to hear the about the issue that is a very hard call, in one aspect you are glad she could come to you who she trust, and think about the protection, but at the same time keeping it from her mom, and so sorry to hear your dad is having a hard time. really hope things have gotten better that had to be so hard, so learn about that. I am sure the girls are putting a smile on your face everyday!!

julbroom1 - Tuesday, 8 Sep
Hello Ladies, sorry haven't been on just soaking up the weather when I can, busy busy and of course a face book junkie..lol

rachel J - Monday, 7 Sep
Hi Ladies, I entered a picture of Samantha in a photo contest. Please vote for her at http://www.pinkprincess.com/photo-contest-vote.html She is on the bottom of page 12. The picture is from her 1st birthday wearing a dress from Pink Princess. I hoping to win a gift certificate for another pretty dress! Thank you Everyone!!!

Baby Jaidalynn - Saturday, 5 Sep
Rachel thanks for the pics. I still can't believe we finally met. I am so glad you recognized Jaidalynn. Ha ha, 3 years later we finally meet. Samantha was just so precious with her outfit! J-dee was such in her moods due to her meds.LOL Your family was so nice. We have to meet up again sometime soon.

rachel j - Friday, 4 Sep
Sorry I haven't been on here in a while. Gene, I hope Matt Jr is liking school a lot. I'm sure he will be ahead of the class with everything you teach him at home!

rachel j - Friday, 4 Sep
Joleaandshelbysmom & zhoiesmom21 -Samantha has her days with lots of tantrums too. Some days are worse than others. Other days she goes all day and is happy. She is especially bad about sitting in her car seat lately. It is a fight to get her to sit down in it. She just tells me no. I try not to get too stressed with her tantrums as I know they will pass. Most of the time I ignore them or put her in her room for a time out for a few minutes.

rachel j - Friday, 4 Sep
Julbroom1-I am not painting the entire house but it sure feels like it. We have painted the living room, kitchen, bathroom, front and back door and all of the inside doors up and down. I just hope whatever house we end up buying is freshly painted because I'm so tired of painting. We hope to have our house on the market by October, so we are trying to get everything looking as good as possible before we list it. I love Trent's bed. It's so cool. I saw the pictures on fb. Samantha would love to sleep in that car bed! What color are you going to paint Trent's room?

rachel j - Friday, 4 Sep
Lilly, it was so nice to finally meet! I recognized Jaidalynn right away! She is even prettier in person! We will have to get together again and let them play together. So funny we both went to Quassy on the same night! I will try to email you the pictures on fb so you have copies. I just wish Gene and Julie were there too. It would be so neat to all meet in person.

rachel j - Friday, 4 Sep

mimimoomoo - Wednesday, 2 Sep
NOTE: carafinna@yahoo.com took my link to the Child Abuse Victim as a way to direct traffic to my site? I wanted to inform everyone that this is a real situation and the family asked me to create a page off my website. So if you go to the link, it will be directly onto FOX'S PAGE (the toddler that passed away) Please stay on that page because the website is inactive, I'm not running a business off there anymore.

zhoiesmom21 - Wednesday, 2 Sep
My daughter is going through this stage to where she kicks and hits and bites....but it is only me. And i am 7 months pregnant so i think that is why...i set aside time for her every day just her and i to play or go some where and yet she still acts like this to me...Does anyone have any advice

mimimoomoo - Wednesday, 2 Sep
2-Yr old Toddler BEATEN TO DEATH by his own mothers boyfriend. Father seeks help, please visit the link to read about the tragic story and help. Www.foxchaule.info PLEASE...

Joleaandshelbysmom - Thursday, 27 Aug
This has been yet another tough week in my little world, Its like I get one stresser in life and then if that isnt enough a whole load of them comes, It started off with a 15 year old friend of mine asking me to secretly take her to the doc and get her on birth control without her parents knowing, I am glad that she knows she needs to be on it, but her mom needs to know too, I contimplated it and yes I took her, I don't know if it was right and I know her mom will kill me if she finds out I did it. then my dad has been going through a rough time, he found out that his exgirlfriend of almost 3 years now has a new bf and it is literally tearing him apart, he went as far as to tell the guy off then drank a 12 pack and tried to hang himself, sorry if this is too graphic, I just need to get this off my chest, needless to say he only got far enough to hang the rope, his brother got to him before he got any further, we are getting him some help now, I am just majorly stressed about that, then yesterday I had to drive for three hours south, get a tooth pulled, then drive back with both girls, someone went with me, but it was still a long day, Thank God for the travel dvd player, it was a lifesaver, lol. So I am taking a me day today, the girls are at daycare and my dh is at work, I am staying home and cleaning house alone, I enjoy doing that when I am alone, lol...thanks everyone for listening, oh and I have a couple of new pics of the girls up...

julbroom1 - Wednesday, 26 Aug
Lilly sorry you are going through the tantrums oh do girls love them. hha I always have to throw and extra thing like the park and store to haha and know Trent like sitting in the back of the cart and stack all the grocery hard to keep out the stuff that breaks or smooshes. He biggest tantrum is metioning a hair cut.. pretty soon I will be asking to borrow some of Jaidalynn hair bows. haha and I have tried everything.. It will get better!! How is the job?

julbroom1 - Wednesday, 26 Aug
Joleaandshelbysmom I bet your happy to be all settled in and have internet back, I think that is the first thing I did when we moved I need my internet. haha That is a lot of for her to handle in such a short time, but it will get better!! And great on the potty training Trent still want no part. How is Shelby doing?

julbroom1 - Wednesday, 26 Aug
Rachel, Are you painting the whole house? Painting is such a chore I use to love painting, but know it like oh now we only have half of our house done in a year..LOL our next room is Trents! to go with his car bed and he also now has a dresser that looks like a tool box to.. I bet Samantha loved the rides:)

Baby Jaidalynn - Monday, 24 Aug
I feel you Jolea Mom, I am so exhausted with my 2 year old too. She was fine for awhile but now is getting just overly aggressive at times. She won't listen at all, I actually got so angry and went into my evil voice she freaked out and sat down. OMG I scared myself. She argues to put on her clothes so I have to bribe her, for example, well mommy's leaving and you aren't going with me, you'll stay here with Grammy. Or hey didn't you want to go out with mommy to the store and to the park. Her screams are so screechy.LOL I once was so fed up I just started screeching with her, and we both started laughing. I don't know if I am encouraging her or just asking her to stop.LOL I started doing small spanking on her hand because for some reason she is starting to touch things that aren't hers, and she will double any messes, run from me, open the door and escape outside, which I put ped locks on it now afraid she will go off in the night while I asleep. Man I could go on and on.

More comments: 1 2 Next Latest comments from all months More months: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 and older