The Second Twelve Months of Life: Your Baby's Growth Month By Month
Your baby's second year is a wondrous and  challenging  experience for parents and child as your baby  reaches out physically  and emotionally for the  world beyond mommy and daddy -- to friends, to  toys,  to sights, sounds, thoughts and  words.In these twelve  months you will see your baby  communicating, identifying,  differentiating,  recognizing and remembering.Your baby  will  probably begin to walk alone, run and jump,  play simple instructive  games, imitate your  actions, sing and dance to music, and increasingly   demonstrate a desire to "do it  myself."By the end of this  milestone year, your baby  will show an expanding range of emotions and   abiliy to express them, show off for an audience,  probably talk  several dozen words and be able to give  as well as receive love.