It sounds silly, but yesterday I gave DD a baby doll to play for the first time. She was giving the baby kisses and it made me emotional! First, because she is now moving to toddler play/ make believe, two because she is mimicking how she is cared for.
Where did time go?
Re: playing
My 11 year old SIL has a giant stuffed doll she keeps on her bed and DS lays on it and hugs it and gives it kisses. It's soo cute!
He also hugs other littles at daycare and when he's around them.
At his birthday, a friend of DH's had a small bouncy thing he let us borrow for the kids that came. Before anyone got there, we put DS in and he immediately started bouncing on it. How does he know?!?!?! I have these moments all the time when I just have no idea how he knows how/what to do with certain things. I am constantly amazed!!
Oh DS still mostly just bangs things together! But he's started mimicking a lot. He'll even blow kisses now! Too cute!