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We find out we are pregnant!
Prenatal- The miracle of Life
Physical development -
Embryonic Period
Prenatal- Physical
tissues inside the body such as the lungs, bones, and muscles start to form -
Our Ultrasound
Prenatal - Physical
The baby has clearly defined fingers and toes. -
The baby has finally arrived!
Prental- Physical
The birth is amazing and the bonding is worth every minute of the pain. -
His grip is so tight!
A tight grip Infancy- Reflexes- Physical development
Our son has a tight grip and makes it feel like Icould lift him with one finger. -
I have decided to breastfeed him.
breastfeeding Infancy-Bonding- Socio-emotional
The baby loves rooting around when I hold him close and seems to be a natural at feeding, he has adapted very well. -
Jack seems to be growing quickly and is trying solid foods.
solid foods Infancy-Cognitive- Developing Taste
Jack has started trying new foods one at a time and seems to love anything sweet. He will uaually suck the sauce from his noodles and drop them to the floor and watch to see our reaction. -
He is crawling everywhere!
He's mobile! Infancy- Stepping- Physical
He crawls everywhere but doesnt like to try to stand and take a stepquite yet. Everyone says to just give him time. -
His first steps all alone!
He can Stand Toddler- Physical- Motor skills
Jack is growing into a small toddler and has refined many of his hand and eye coordiantion type motor skills. He can crawl and pull himself up on some things. Today however he took his very first steps all by himself with nothing to hold on to. -
Self-awerness
Boy in mirror Toddler- Cognitive- Self-awerness
Jack has developed the ability to recognize himself in the mirror and often imitates the speech and actions of others. -
He cried and cried.
his first seperation Toddler-Socio-emotional-Seperation Anxiety He had never really been away from me before and must have been terrified. I thought he would be ok in the care of my mom whom he was familiar with while I did some last minute christmas shopping but he cried the entire time I was gone. -
Learning to communicate
speech Toddler-Cognitive- Speech
Jack has always made noises since and early age and loves to babble quite loudly with other kids and while playing with his father in the evenings. Jack has been using whole words to communicate his wants and needs and is now starting to put eords togetherand even associate ownership with certain items like his "momma's keys". -
Women are his favorite
women
Socio-emotional
Early Years- Gender identification
Jack seems to be able to tell the difference between men and women and seems to favor women more then men in new settings and will go to many of my female friends who have open arms. -
He loves to smile for the camera.
A sense of self-awerness Cognitive Development
Early Years- Self Awerness
Jack seems to have a real self awerness about himself and loves to smile and take pictures and then see them on my camera right afterwards. -
Jack Loves to play with other kids at the playground
playground fun Cognitive Development
Early Years- Functional Play
Jack is able to keep up with the other small kids and loves to slide on the slides. He is able to take turns and seems to have mastered the slides with the other kids but still seems to get a little lost during activities that are new to him. -
Jack is starting to learn more and more words and can make sentences like many of the children his age.
Kids speach Cognetive Development
Early Years- Developing speech
Jack has learned to say short sentences and can communicate some of his wants. This morning when he woke up he said "Mommy, I am hungry" which is great progress because he used to say "mommy eat" when his vocabulary wast asdeveloped as it is now. -
Jack has learned to tie his shoes
He can now tie his shoe laces.
Cognitive Development-
Middle Child Hood-Fine Motor Skills
Jack learned to tie his shoes and can now do it by himself. -
Jack needs glasses
kid with glasses
Middle Child Hood-- Physical Development
Visual Impairment-
We never imagined that Jack was near sighted and struggled to see things far away. -
His vocabulary seems to grow every day!
his vocabulary increases daily
Cognetive Development-
Middle Childhood
Jack seems to learn new words every time he goes to school or interacts with other kids at the playground, -
Playing Baseball is something he is good at
he like baseball
Physical Development
Middle Childhood
Jack is good and playing baseball and it has really boosted his self-confidence and overall self-esteem. -
He's good at skateboarding
skateboarding
Adolescence-
Physical Development
Eye and foot coordination
Jack has always loved skateboards ever since he was little. Now that he is getting older he has the ability to do some awesome tricks with great hand, eye and body coordination that he just didnt have before. This ability makes him very confident and quite popular amongst his small clique of friends. -
Transition to middle school
Middle school
Adolescence-
Socio-emotional
Adapting to the diversity and fast pace
Jack just started middle school and seems to be making the transition quite well even though he was sure he would struggle when he learned there were multiple classes each day. -
Jack wants to buy his girlfriend a christmas gift
Girlfriend
Adolescence-
Socio-emotional
Jack is really developing feeling for this girl friend hehas been seeing for 8 months and wants to buy her an appropriate gift. -
Stress and bad choices
Car accident
Adolescence-
Cognitive-
I got a call from the hospital, Jack was out drinking alcohol with friends and they tried to drive home. Jack has a broken arm and leg on his right side and was the only boy left in the car as the driver and Jack's so called friend both ran away from the scene of the accident and had to be tracked down at their homes.
