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Keanu's Milestones Chart
crossed out text = completed/mastered milestone
Child's Age Mastered Skills
(most kids can do) 		Emerging Skills
(half of kids can do) 		Advanced Skills
(a few kids can do)
N O T E S
1 month
  • Lifts head

  • Responds to sound

  • Stares at faces
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  • Follows objects

  • Ooohs and ahhs

  • Can see black-and-white patterns
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  • Smiles

  • Laughs

  • Holds head at 45-degree angle
    		•  1. he was holding his head up the day he was born
    2. whenever I would feed peanut, he would just stare and stare at me like "who is this woman, why does she always have to hold me".
    3. When peanut would smile, people would always tell me it was just gas. I don't think so. I think he was really smiling.
    2 months
  • Vocalizes sounds — gurgling and cooing

  • Follows objects

  • Holds head up for short periods s
    		•
  • Smiles, laughs

  • Holds head at 45-degree angle

  • Movements become smoother
    		•
  • Holds head steady

  • Bears weight on legs

  • May lift head and shoulder (mini-pushup)
    		•  1. Peanut would almost break his neck to try to follow something.
    2. He has always been very good at holding his head up. He liked to look around at everything.
    3 months
  • Laughs

  • Holds head steady

  • Recognizes your face and scent
    		•
  • Squeals, gurgles, coos

  • Recognizes your voice

  • Does mini-pushups
  • Turns toward loud sounds

  • Can bring hands together and may bat at toys

  • Can roll over
    		•  1. To get peanut to laugh, I can: tickle his stomach with my hand or mouth, or sit in front of him and just laugh (he will mimic me and start laughing)
    2. Peanut is truly a mama's boy...anytime someone is holding him he will look at that person then look around the room to find me.

    3. He would roll over when he got mad of being on his stomach but he would always have cried for five minutes or so. I woudln't say he mastered this until 4 months.
    4 months
  • Holds head up steadily

  • Can bear weight on legs

  • Coos when you talk to him
    		•
  • Can grasp a toy

  • Can roll over

  • Reaches out for object
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  • May cut first tooth

  • May be ready for solids

  • Imitates speech sounds — baba, dada

    		• 1. Can roll front to back, back to front. Truly mastered this skill.
    2. Can sit with assistance.
    3. He says "Ma Ma Ma Ma!"
    4. Talks to himself non-stop.
    5. Discovered his feet.
    6. Grabs toys from my hands and brings them to his mouth.
    7. Ate his first solid...rice cereal.
    5 months
  • Can distinguish between bold colors

  • Can roll over

  • Amuses himself by playing with hands and feet
    		•
  • Turns toward new sounds

  • Recognizes own name
    		•
  • May sit momentarily without support

  • Mouths objects

  • Mouths objects

  • Stranger anxiety may begin

    		• 1. When I wake up in the mornings, Peanut is in his crib holding his feet with his hands and talking to himself just waiting for me to wake up.
    2. Can wake peanut up by calling his name "Peanut".
    3. Will turn head to a toy that plays music.
    4. Will sit for about 30 seconds by himself, then falls over.
    5. Everything he holds must be "taste tested".
    6. Certain people will scare him. Most ladies he will flirt, grin at. Only a couple cases where people have made him cry.
    6 months
  • Turns toward sounds and voices

  • Imitates sounds, blows bubbles

  • Rolls in both directions
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  • Reaches for objects and mouths them

  • Is ready for solids

  • Sits without support
    		•
  • May drag object toward himself

  • May lunge forward or start crawling

  • May jabber or combine syllables

    		• 1. Began imitating sounds and blowing bubbles at 5 months
    2. Mastered rolling over at 4 months.
    3. Started eating Oatmeal this month.
    4. Lunges at objects. Tries to get his knees under him while on belly.
    7 months
  • Sits without support

  • Reaches for things with a sweeping motion

  • Imitates speech sounds (babbles)
  • Combines syllables into wordlike sounds

  • Begins to crawl or lunges forward
  • Stands while holding onto something

  • Waves goodbye

  • Bangs objects together

    		•  1. At 5 months, he would stand holding my hands for several minutes.

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