His body:
Your baby is now comfortable with walking and wants to move up and down the stairs alone.
Autonomy develops with the acquisition of daily activities like washing your face, take your shoes off, open doors, turn on the lights, he loves to do this multiple times! And what a triumph when, two years, he knows how to eat alone ...
The autonomy is reinforced by the gradual introduction of clean, first day, then night.
This is when, not yet at his disposal all the means to express what he wants, he just take you by the hand to show you.
He also knows, through trial, unscrew and screw.
Communication:
Understanding: it includes more than 200 words and phrases longer and longer as "go get your teddy in your room."
Your child begins to arrange the words into categories like animals, clothing, toys, for example, he loves to show you pictures.
It also includes parts of his body.
Productions: this period marks the transition to language with the appearance of small sentences words from February to March. Baby uses a "telegraphic style" where small function words are not yet integrated, but the gestures he makes, his intonation and context you can understand.
It will be very important to correctly repeat the message of your child, do not repeat, so that it makes the models it can gradually reproduce, when it is ready.
Present at the taking is a "vocabulary explosion": Your child learns from 4 to 10 new words a day! It uses more and more verbs and named his first name.
Some children still have a very limited vocabulary but are not necessarily alarming, they are more observant players.
He begins to tell the difference between feminine and masculine, singular and plural.
Meanwhile, his pronunciation is more accurate. However the final syllables are still "eaten".
Toys and activities:
At this time your child loves to do the same as you, you imitate and pretend. Dolls and tea sets will be very present to cook, feed, wash, walking her "baby".
This is also the age of movement and the children will be very attracted by the balance games, the reels.
The first puzzles appear.
Small experiment much like contact with different materials and they love playing with earth, sand, flour they malaxeront, transvaseront.
Obviously, do not be afraid to get dirty but see them all his experiences are very important and they bring them so much fun it would be a shame to deprive them!
Feel free to talk to your pediatrician or your doctor who can provide information.