Does/Does Not

CnAnA · June 2014

How's about another round of what my kid does/doesn't do?

Does:

Babble on and have a full on conversation, including a few words that one can pick out. (Mama, Daddy, Olaf, Xbox. we have our priorities in line in this family.)
Insist on putting on her own pullups and shorts. She isn't good at it, but she gets the idea that her legs go in the holes then you pull them up.
Use a spoon with relative success. Depending on how hungry she is, there are some days when i barely have to wipe oatmeal off her face. If she isn't super hungry, she needs a full on bath after breakfast.
Put on her own shoes - sometimes on the right foot!
Feed her stuffed animals, and ask me to give them kisses. Cutest.thing.ever.

Doesn't:

repeat or identify colors/shapes/numbers at all. She knows that the diamond shape goes in the diamond hole, but if I ask her where's the diamond, she won't point to it.
Count. We count together, but she just holds up her fist and says "uh...uh...uh...yay!!!"
Eat veggies. Ever. LOL I am working on this, but mostly her veggies are canned black olives (which I don't think count) and anything I can get hidden into a pasta sauce.
Use multi-word phrases. She babbles, but doesn't use phrases that you can understand. "here go" and "there now" are about it.

CnAnA · June 2014

We don't even own a blender to be perfectly honest. LOL we used to but it bit the dust and we never replaced it. What do you put in your smoothies?

Cbeanz · June 2014

Does:

Put 2-3 words together: Wet diaper. More milk please. Bye-bye Daddy.

Eat all kinds of veggies, including kale and chard which surprised me.

Know colors - bring me the green crayon, etc. She can also say (most of) them.

Does Not:

Use the potty - or even consider sitting on it. It's currently used for toy storage.

Count or say the alphabet

Pull pants up/down or help get dressed in any way

CnAnA · June 2014

@mbm1983 we had a Magic Bullet a few years ago. We quit using it when my husband found a quarter sized shard of plastic in his drink from the side of the blender attachment. We called and they said "Oh wow, sorry about that! Here, let me send you a free cookbook!"

hilsy85 · June 2014

Does:

- make 2-3 word sentences (more crackers, water in eyes, go down slide)

- count to 5

- identify some colors (pink, yellow, black, red, white, purple)

- use his own name (new skill, and it's so cute to hear him say "Leo"

- go up stairs with alternating feet (didn't realize this was a thing, but apparently it is?)

Doesn't

- use a fork/spoon consistently

- self feed consistently--it may be that i'm not patient enough, but I feed him a fair amount of his food

- use the potty or have any interest

- know the ABCs

Rachelilly23 · June 2014

Does
Say a couple words together sometimes
Say Please and Thank you ("tay-too") in context
Give hugs and kisses
Use a fork and spoon with some success
Repeat colors, numbers, letters, and actually most words if I tell him the name and ask him to say it
Put on shoes (usually MY shoes or DS1'S shoes, on the wrong feet haha)
Go upstairs alternating feet
Follow simple instructions

Does not
Use potty or have much interest (but I haven't really attempted)
Know shapes or letters
Identify letters, colors, shapes, and numbers on his own (DS1 could do all of this by 19 months, even the whole alphabet)

Sillygirl85 · June 2014

Does:
-Talks in phrases. He told me today to drive to Hannaford and get cookies.
- Sings the ABC's, and can count to 3
- Recognizes his name visually
- Knows his colors and shapes
- Can sing parts of songs on his own without prompting
- Repeats phrases from books that he has read (He knows the first page of Goodnight Moon)
- Feeds himself
- Picks out clothing and helps to dress himself
- Alternates feet on the stairs
- Can climb short wooden ladders on his own

Does Not:
-Use the Potty
-

porklump30 · June 2014

Does:

- Say multiple word phrases (longest was "I said baaa to my sheep" while wearing sheep pj's)

- Self feeds and uses utensils with decent accuracy as well as eats a wide variety of food

- Knows lots of letters, numbers, colors and shapes, although she doesn't yet identify them correctly (i.e. knows that red is a color, but can't pick out the red block)

- Identify tons of body parts

- Dance a mean hokey-pokey

Does not:

- Dress herself

- Control her emotions very well (hello temper tantrums!) <-- not that I expect her to

- Say "I love you"; she will repeat the individual words separately, but when asked to repeat the phrase the sits there poker faced or will occasionally blow us a kiss.

chricast · June 2014

Does

Point to places on her body -eyes,nose, ears, mouth, hair, hands feet, belly button

Can say very few 2 word phrases "hi kitty" "thank you" -those are probably it.

babbles constantly

Self feeds with a spoon and fork

Walks up stairs

Follows directions fairly well

Eats ungodly amounts of food and loves fruits and veggies

Attempts to count 1-2-3 but mostly skips to "treeee" and attempts to count with her fingers

Doesn't

Use the potty

Know her colors

Speak long phrases

Repeat words (she has a few times recently)

Say her name (although she pointed to each of us today and said our name then pointed to herself and we repeated her name to her..maybe she is trying?)

Dress herself - she will put her pants or shirt on her head like it is a hat and that is her version of dressing.

louisevoltaire · June 2014

I've been waiting for another one of these threads to see where everyone's LOs are at with things. DS seems pretty behind in comparison.

Does:

-Attempts to use a fork (tries to stab and tries to scoop). Usually reverts back to his hands for efficiency.

-Sometimes drinks out of a regular cup, and now with minimal spillage.

-Helps pull up his pants when asked.

-Follows simple instructions.

-Builds with blocks (stacking, Mega bloks, and now working on Duplo)

-Does his shape sorter and can sometimes do his puzzles (he knows which pieces go where, just can't always make them fit back in)

-Gives us kisses.

Does Not:

-Talk much. He is babbling more, and we are starting to recognize words so I am hopeful.

-Know his colors (consistently).

-Know the ABCs (though he likes to hear the song).

-Use the toilet. I haven't even considered trying to potty train him yet.

CnAnA · June 2014

Alice rocks the potty. Only dirty pullups we deal with now are when she's sick. But she is too busy to worry about telling me when she needs to pee.

She isn't very good with a fork still. She CAN use it. She has the skills to do it. I've seen it. But she prefers her hands.

scrumpfy · June 2014

Does-
Talk. And talk and talk. She will repeat anything and uses phrases.

Climb very well - ladders, playground equipment, etc.

Identify body parts, animals, colors, and the number 5. Only 5. She has 5 fingers, toes, and that's about it, lol.

Uses forks and spoons. But often prefers her fingers.

Does not -
Do stairs.

Use potty.

Have hardly any hair.

MommaHen1984 · June 2014

Yikes, it seems like DS is behind in the vocabulary department?? I cant believe some of yours are doing ABCS! What are your tips for that?

DOES:

Says basic words, he catches onto simple words very easily

self-feed with utensils

puts his clothes and shoes away and helps put laundry away, puts his toys away- maybe he gets this OCD of cleaning up after me

Actually walks my moms dog with a leash ( she has a small dog)

Follows movements for songs- head shoulders knees & toes, if your happy and you know, etc and pretty much any song on Sprout

Assists with dressing himself

DOES NOT:

Put words into phrases

Use the potty

Say ABCS

StefanieM522 · June 2014

Does:

Self feeds with good success
helps dress himself
says a few words and starting to put them together
knows almost all his colors and can point them out in a book
loves climbing and standing on anything
will sit on the potty and asks to sit on the potty, but hasn't done anything yet. I can feel it coming one day though.
Walks up stairs with alternating feet
knows a few songs, row row row your boat is his favorite
can follow instructions for the most part
can count 1-2-3 but nothing over 3

Does not:
use the potty. still in diapers
not STTN
can't drink from a open cup without dumping it everywhere

pb_bride · June 2014

DS is what I'd consider a late talker.

DOES:

knows 3 dozen signs and signs appropriately

can now say about 20 words (he had zero words at 15m; now he's 19m)

understands 2 languages and points to objects in books correctly when presented in either language

eats with plate and bowl, uses spoon fairly well for yogurt and soups, uses fork occasionally

climbs up & down stairs while holding to my hand

helps with laundry, cleaning up, putting away groceries and recycling

sleeps and naps fairly well

knows most body parts (gets thumb and big toe confused sometimes)

can do shape sorter correctly all the time without trial-and-error

plays independently

knows how to ask for help

DOES NOT:

eat green veggies lately (he was eating them by the handful a few months ago, now he picks them out)

brush his teeth (been a battle twice a day for the past 2 weeks)

not know letters, cannot count, not know colors

no 2-word phrase

no interest in potty

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