Baby on the move!
Even if you spend most of the day with your baby, you are going to notice changes on a daily basis. And you are going to find yourself amused by what your little one can do. Crawling, standing up, first steps … let them explore! Keep stimulating your baby, encourage your little one to move by placing toys just out of reach.
Your baby is playing more and experimenting with toys of different shapes, textures, smells and sounds. They will be interested in exploring unknown objects. Give them some toys for shaking and banging, making baby music is fun! While sit up place a container with different toys for taking things in and out.
Baby’s communications skills are getting more developed. He is going to be babbling more a more, imitating the way you talk, the rhythm of your language. You’ll notice the use of gestures to let you know what he wants. Enjoy those precious moments of first gestures and follow up the conversation. He will start pointing out to things. Encourage him to point to things to keep enriching the experience, name the object and describe them. Baby can also start shaking his head saying “NO” and waving “BYE-BYE”.
Keep singing and reading daily, baby will be more interested in books and will interact more with them.
But the most magic reason of reading to your baby is that he will be creating a connection between books and the act of spending time with you closely. Books will be linked to love and happiness. It will mean reading is important, and just like that you are creating a new reader.