Cognitive

• Shows interest in more complex patterns

• Is more interested in studying objects visually

• Focuses on small objects

• Smoothly tracks quickly moving objects

• Has increased attention span

• Experiments with cause and effect

• Discovers object permanence (an object is still there even when she can’t see it)

• Understands some sequencing (setting up a high chair means it’s time to eat)

Motor

• Holds head steady without support when upright

• When on stomach, pushes up to elbows and arches her back

• Rocks on stomach, waving arms and legs

• Rolls from stomach to back, then back to stomach

• May sit in frog- or tripod-like position without support

• Coordinates hands and eyes (seeing an object, then reaching for it)

• Rakes objects toward her and grasps them

• Brings objects to mouth with good accuracy

• Uses hands to explore body; grabs feet when lying on back

• Will stand on your lap or a firm surface and bounce

Communication

• Uses different cries to express hunger, pain, sleepiness, or boredom

• Listens to your language patterns and copies those sounds

• Makes more complex, two-syllable babbles that combine vowels and consonants (“ah-goo,” “bah-bah”)

• Babbling begins to sound like the intonation used in real language

• Squeals, giggles, and laughs to draw attention