I feel like an anthropologist watching Eddie play. I have aboslutely no background to know what is normal or typical behavior and so everything he does is fascinating to me. By now he knows how to open and close drawers and what drawers have what things in them. He knows what is in the bathroom (his bath toys and beckoning roll of toliet paper to unfurl). He knows that if something goes under a drawer or a piece of furniture, it's not gone, he just has to look and it will be there.
He knows people come and go through the front door and what to do with the seat buckles in his highchair and carseat, even if he can't make them hook together. He helps and almost completely takes his shirt off (has had socks mastered for a while as you know). He's pretty well mastered all this stuff by now.
I have yet to master how to play with a one-year old. Like Eddie I'm learning by how everyone else acts around him. The picture shows how we play together in the kitchen, or rather the results of playing together. The string of legos continues beyond the lens of the camera on the left and down the hall.
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How do I play with you? Let me count the ways. - Play time is also learn time. We show him how to play and ask him to do it. Stack blocks, put shapes in proper spot.... Name the objects, encourage his attempts at sounds. He may not be producing recognisable words, but recognizable sounds. Show him you are pleased with his efforts and encourage his sounds that are part of words.
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