What do you do for fun with LO?

Re: What do you do for fun with LO?

• winecastle14 member

  June 2013

  I think what you are doing is great. I just try to talk to her and tell her everything I'm doing. For example, I'll say "mommy is getting your food out of the refrigerator" when she is crawling around the kitchen floor watching me. Or when she grabs my face I'll say "that's mommy's nose", etc. Even though they don't know what we are saying, I think just talking to them in general helps them learn words faster. I try to buy a variety of toys with different sounds, textures and colors but that can get expensive. Lately I've been giving her different sized and shaped bowls and pots and pans and she loves that.
  
  Edit: oh and we play music, dance and try to expose her to nature. I wish I was better at reading to her.. she's just usually too tired in the evenings to care about it. Boo.

  
  

  
  

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• gnomemom member

  June 2013

  I talk to him quite a bit and tell him what I'm doing. I'll sing and dance or make funny faces to make him laugh. I hold him so he can stand up and bounce, turn him upside down, pick him up with my legs, or turn him into Superbaby and fly him around the house. We pet the kitty and dog.

  I'll lay a blanket down with a bunch of toys and we will sit and play with them. We read a book almost every day, usually at bed time. He also likes to play independently in his crib or in his swing. He will sit in his high chair and play with toys or eat a snack and watch me while I work in the kitchen. I usually have music playing.

  I really only get a full day with him on the weekends, and DH is home with DS all day. They go to the zoo, Target, on walks, out to brunch with grandma, and stuff like that.

  I get a weekly email with age appropriate activities to do every week. I forgot my phone at home today, so I can't check my email, but I'll see if I can look up the website later. It sometimes has some good ideas.

  

  

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• SurpriseAt39 member

  June 2013

  I sing to LO (real songs and made up silly songs), read books

  Count his toys, toes, fingers, etc

  Name colors of objects

  Make sounds back and forth (copy)

  Practice crawling, walking, standing

  Some sign language (hi/bye, milk, mommy, daddy, sister, all done, more)

  Tickle

  Walks, play in the grass, explore different rooms in the house

  * we don't do all these things everyday, but we get to them all during a week

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• kerrigrooves member

  June 2013

  we do very similar things to y'all...

  sing, dance, count, point out things, read, go outside, swim, go for walks/runs

  Im trying to teach her to clap hands and wave too

  I try to introduce new toys and kitchen stuff

  Id like to find some baby yoga but I  dont want to spend the $, I should get a DVD

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• vettymama member

  June 2013

  Read, sing, dance, and count

  Independent play on the floor

  Go for walks and sit in the grass

  Tour the house and explore in different rooms

  Point out different colors

  Grocery shopping, Storytime

  Eat (BLW)

  Play with pots and pans and ladles

  Working on clapping hands, waving, standing, crawling

  Sometimes exercising and baby yoga

  

  
  

  
  

  

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• vettymama member

  June 2013

  ksherwood:

  we do very similar things to y'all...

  sing, dance, count, point out things, read, go outside, swim, go for walks/runs

  Im trying to teach her to clap hands and wave too

  I try to introduce new toys and kitchen stuff

  Id like to find some baby yoga but I  dont want to spend the $, I should get a DVD

  I have found a few short videos on YouTube. H doesn't like it too much so the ten minute videos are great for us.

  

  
  

  
  

  

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• 143BabyCakes member

  June 2013

  sing, dance, read, roll around, go shopping, play outside, visit family. I talk to him all.the.time. He watches me clean the house on my off days. I also have a basket of toys that he likes to strewn all over the living room

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• kayteebayb member

  June 2013

  All of the above.

  Plus, we also take swim class twice a week and have recently started Gymboree. V LOVES to leave the house, so I'm always trying to find mommy and me classes for her.

  ETA: If you have a Gymboree near you, you can take a trial class for free.

   
  

  
  

  

  
  

  

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• Dimples0101 member

  June 2013

  Thanks for the suggestions!  I work full-time, but I am going to scaling back to 4 days/week instead of 5 soon, so I want to make sure I'm engaging her as much as daycare does.

   

  

   

    

   

   

   

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