Four Months:

• She is interested in people and recognizes those who are familiar to her.
• She squirms with excitement, squeals and laughs.
• Coordinating look

• Take along activity toys
• Toys with a variety of sounds, bright colors and lights.
• Hand-Held rattles or toys on a ring

Eight Months:

• Crawls forward or backward, sometimes while holding an object
• She is developing small motor skills such as the pincer grasp, used to pick up small objects between the thumb and fingers
• Your baby is beginning to articulate sounds

• Musical Toys
• Entertainment centers that encourage standing and cruising
• Sorting and building toys
• Toys with dials, levers and buttons

Twelve Months:

• She likes other children but does not play with them
• She imitates actions such as talking on the phone, sweeping and pushing a shopping cart
• She understands much of what is being said
• She displays affection (hugs, kisses, pats and smiles)

• Floor to floor ride-on toys
• Community Vehicles
• Neighborhood Vehicles
• Animal-themed playsets
• Toy telephones

Eighteen - 24 Months Old

• She is very mobile -- can walk forward, sideways and backwards and also run
• She can use her feet to scoot along on a cycle
• She can put one block on top of another
• She likes to feel rather than use clay and play-doh and squeezes it in her hands
• She may have a vocabulary of 50 to 200 words

• Grow-with-me ride-on toys
• Cars, trucks, trains and other vehicles
• Construction and building playsets
• Wagons
• Books with different textures and brightly colored pictures
• Large Crayons
• Child-sized table and chairs