13 month old grandson was much in our care.
Daughter (his mom) laid up with Vertigo and with much help from our other daughter (many many thanks in order to her) we got a course in “instant grand-parenting.”
Relearning some old skills, feeding, diapers, keeping watchfull eye on wanderings, and “play.”
At this age, there are a few blunt “universal” words, such as “NO.” that seem to be understood.
For the rest, there is much “making noises.”
Both grandparents and grandson.
Most good, some not as good.
Failures by grandparents to understand cues and “established phrases” caused some concerns on both ends of the “conversation.”
Beyond NO, we had “doggie, gentle, ball, lake, water” and a few other words that might have been recognized. Grandparents learned a few intonations and something like googlie-googlie-googlie as happy phrase for fruit (esp. blueberries).
Non verbal ranged from pouts (no more of THAT food) to broad and engaging smiles and giggles.
Grandpa (me) got to revisit many “mouth sounds” from cheek popping to tones from blowing over the mouth of a bottle, to finger-lip-flapping while vocalizing.
Robby picked up on most, other than the bottle blowing (which seemed to catch his ear).
It was fun to watch him explore some of his new toys, experimenting with combinations of objects to be cycled through an airstream contraption, or just playing with plastic utensils and containers … organizing and dis-organizing collections.
He certainly seems to enjoy the lake, and I expect that, in a few years, he’ll “live” on the dock and/or raft when he visits in later years.
Some of us think he is destined to be a chef, what with his near-constant interest in heading for the kitchen then attempting to explore (constant supervision). With fork in hand much of the time, some thought he may just become a food critic…
It's also fun to watch some of his problem solving skills - dry cereal to take out of container, and put back - learning about gravity etc.
BTW, this is Robby enjoying breakfast in his "Antique" Hi-Chair
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I hate to tell you this but you don't need to put antique in quotation marks. I believe that anything over 50 yrs old can officially be considered an antique, and since I used that chair well..... you get my drift. We're all antiques now (well, almost)
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