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A Stupendous Second Year
The Joy of Having a 2-Year-Old
By Shannon McKelden
"Remember when your baby would delight in seeing the toy she had dashed from her highchair tray reappear?" Hayes says. "For little ones, out of sight is out of mind. But in year two that changes. Your growing child can hold on to a memory. Peek-a-boo becomes a delight. You are there, you are not there, you are there again!"
Cook finds this new skill of her daughter's especially delightful. "I like how she gets that when I leave, I'm going to come back," she says. "She waves bye-bye and smiles, thrilled to be making the same hand signs as the adults."
Cathy Wilson from Oceanside, Calif., finds her 15-month-old son is funny in unexpected ways. "Everything is an adventure for him," Wilson says. "The other day, he deconstructed a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, squashed everything onto a tray, and then, after several tries, balanced his sippy cup on the whole messy pile ... after which, he held up his hands and cheered!"
Personalities blossom at this age, too, something Nicole Ledoux of Mission Viejo, Calif., has found with her 17-month-old son. "He is starting to find things funny that are not deliberate attempts to make him laugh," she says. "Also, he is so friendly. He waves at anyone and everyone saying hello and goodbye. He makes my day and I think other people are tickled by it as well."
No matter how grown up your toddler starts to look this year, though, make no mistake, he still needs Mom and Dad.
Estes found her son went from "baby" to "kid" during this year; however, he wasn't completely independent yet. "Even though there were moments when he'd clearly left babyhood, he still liked to have me hold him and call him 'my baby,'" she says.
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