Jordan (1 mo)
Very in touch with environment around her.
Watches what you're doing when awake.
Cries a lot of the time for no reason.
Peyton-21 months
It has been interesting to watch her develop over the past year. Her attention span has increased tremendously. When she is left to play on her own, she gravitates toward toys that she can stack and knock over. She also really enjoys the toys where she fits a shape through its matching shape's hole. At 18 months, she was not able to do this. She would get very frustrated with this toy, and begin crying as she sat all alone. When I came running to see what was wrong, I would find her in tears because she couldn't get the circle to fit through the star. Now, watching her play with this toy, she understand the concept. As she is able to fit the shapes through she screams with excitement and continues to play. When she stacks blocks and stacking toys she loves to knock them over rapidly, and screams with excitement while doing that also. Her older sister, Jasmin, is one person she always gravitates towards. She will constantly be running by Jasmin to see what she is doing, and then ruin it. If Jasmin is coloring, Peyton will rip the book from underneath her and throw it. This is when I had to step in to her play because this was unacceptable. Peyton is constantly tormenting Jasmin and getting into what Jasmin is doing, this is why Jasmin distances herself from her younger sisters. Peyton also loves to go by her baby sister, Jordan, and give her kisses, however, she can also be very rough with her too. Peyton got upset that I had Jordan laying by me on the floor and tried to come up and slap her. I feel that Peyton still has to understand that hitting is not acceptable, but I know that many children her age have this same behavior.
Jasmin-5
Jasmin loves to play alone when she is just with her three sisters. She often locks herself in the walk in closet in the playroom, where we have an easel set up for her to color at. In this room she will be reading book after book, or coloring or painting. She loves to look at pictures and draw pictures. One thing I noticed is that during her non-structured play time alone, she does not play any games that promote using her imagination or make-believe. With her friends, however, they do play these imaginary dress up games and pretend to be other people. I find it very interesting that she has two completely different types of play depending upon who she is playing with. Her friends and her love to play princesses and dress up with their dresses and other dress up clothes they have. Alone, Jasmin hardly does anything outside of the box. Even drawing, she always wants to mimic something she has seen in a book, or has drawn before. Rarely does she take risks and draw up something never seen before. She does not enjoy playing with toys much at all. As her play mostly consists of books and drawing, I have tried to introduce toys to her so I could watch her play with things, and she had no interest.
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