Cool Blue Happy Stacks - by Bella Tunno

During the first six Months, your babies grow up and develop their skills very quickly. Parents can obviously observe from when babies develop their physical development, especially their fine motor skills. This happens when they try to grab or hold objects. They learn how to control muscles. Moreover, they understand sensory stimulation and express their needs both physical and emotional to parents.

Apppropriate Toys for 0-6 Months

• Visual Stimulation - Encourage your babies to focus on objects and stimulate their vision development like mobiles and baby gym.
• Motor Stimulation - Help your babies use for batting, grasping and kicking such as mobiles and baby gyms.
• Auditory Stimulation - Soothe your babies with gentle sounds using music boxes or rattles irrors.
• Intellectual Stimulation - Grab your babies’ attention in looking at pictures and listening to other people tell story through using floating baby book or photos book with vivid colors. Encourage you babies to learn about themselves and surroundings such as unbreakable safety mirrors.

Newborn Development:

• Move to take the form of general reflexes which involve the whole body
• Get blurry vision and still not good at focusing on objects.
• Love staying close to familiar adults.
• Recognize and respond to familiar vision and sounds
• Cry to communicate.
  
  

Month 1 Development

• Turn their heads while lying on tummies.
• Grip finger in their palms.
• Only focus on objects about 8-12 inches away.
• Become calm when picking them up and speaking with rhythmic or gentle voices.
• Get startled at loud noises.
• Watch and follow objects placed in front of their faces, especially the ones with vivid colors.
• Communicate by smiling, gazing, and crying.
• Begin to make simple sounds such as "Ooh" and "Aah".

Month 2 Development

• Hold heads up for a short period of time.
• Follow nearby large objects with eyes.
• Enjoy being hugged and cuddled.
• Smile when being touched or talked with.
• Follow objects with eyes and recognize people at a distance.
• Make cooing and gurgling sounds.

Month 3 Development

• Lift heads and chests up and look both ways when lying on stomachs.
• Sit only with full support.
• Attempt to reach for a toy held above their chests.
• Follow moving objects.
• Start to babble and mimic sounds they hear.
• Observe environment by putting stuffs into their mouths.
• Make eye contact and chuckle in response to people.

Month 4 Development

• Hold heads steady without support.
• Begin to creep.
• Sit with some support.
• Reach objects with two hands together at body's midline.
• Put hands in their mouths or out objects from hands to mouths
• Show anxiety when approached by unfamiliar people.
• Recognize familiar people and objects at a distance.
• Babble, express and mimic sounds they hear.

Month 5 Development

• Hold up heads and shoulders.
• Sit with hands support.
• Can slowly hold on to any objects with a single hand.
• Respond to their own names.
• Smile at others.
• Recognize familiar objects and explore objects they're interested in.
• Babble, express and mimic sounds they hear.

Month 6 Development

• Scoot, roll or crawl.
• Roll over side to side.
• Begin to sit with a little help.
• Start teething
• Respond to people’s expressions of emotions
• Often become joyful.
• Realize if an object is dropped, it's still there and should be picked up.
• Make sounds with one-syllable words such as "Ba", "Da", "Ma."
• Appropriate Toys for 0 to 6 Months

Between the sixth and the twelfth Months, they are known as little explorers who are always curious. They are motivated to explore the world by crawling around and grabbing objects within their reach. Their surroundings are very attractive for them as they are eager to find new discovery. They love making sounds while sitting on the floor. Sucking and biting toys are also their favorite hobbies since the first tooth is coming. Soon they will be able to bite and chew soft foods.

Appropriate Toys for 6 - 12 Months

• Touching and Holding - Develop tactile skill with different kinds of surfaces; smooth, soft, rough using sensory toys such as The Sensory Tumbling. Help babies make teething easier and chewing by cutting the teeth through massaging the gums to relieve pain like teethers and gummy rings
• Social and Emotional Development - Keep your baby happy and engaged in playing such as The Baby Car
• Muscle Development - Develop the large muscle groups and improve balance using roller, clutching toys and walkers. Improve fine motor skill and coordination using soft balls and clutching toys
• Intellectual Stimulation - Engage babies explore, discover and figure things out by themselves.  Encourage babies’ early attempt to communicate with you through recognizing pictures and listening story using soft cloth books or wooden toys. Develop creative play during bath time using floating toys.

Month 6 Development

• May scoot, roll or crawl.
• Roll over side to side
• Begin to sit with a little help.
• Start teething
• Responds to other people’s expressions of emotion and appears joyful often
• Begin to realize that if an object is dropped, it is still there and just needs to be picked up
• Begin to make sounds that resemble one-syllable words like "ba,","da", "ma."

Month 7 Development

• Sit unassisted.
• Reaching for and picking up toys.
• Enjoy playing with people and imitating smiles and frowning
• Show interested in small details of objects.
• Repeat sounds, for example, “ma-ma, mum-mum”

Month 8 Development

• Sit well without support with straight back
• Grasp an object with one hand
• Attach to parent (usually mother). Fear of separation
• Look at a picture book with their parents and like to touch and turn the pages
• Begin to understand and respond to “No”

Month 9 Development

• Pull up to standing
• Pass object from one hand to other
• Understand others’ actions and facial expression
• Enjoy rhythmic music
• Use their index finger to poke at things, such as switches, buttons, and electrical outlets.
• Hold a bottle or drink from a cup you hold for them
• Use certain sounds for different things
• Begin using hand movements to communicate wants and needs
  
  

Month 10 Development

• Stand with handholds for short periods.
• Step sideways holding on
• Enjoy playing with people and imitating smiles and frowning
• Search for partially hidden object.
• Learn words that represent something, for example, saying “bird” while pointing to the sky.

Month 11 Development

• Stand for a moment and sit from a standing position
• Tries to gain approval and avoid disapproval
• Can be uncooperative
• Begin to realize that if an object is dropped, it is still there and just needs to be picked up
• Begin to use simple single words, for example, “dada” or “mama”

Month 12 Development

• Move and hold head easily in all direction.
• Stand well and begin to take step
• Pull or push things while walking
• Imitate and copy simple action
• Take longer interest in toys and activity
• Begin to sort by shapes and colors
• Begin pretend play by imitating what he or she sees in real life
• Begin to produce sounds or word that refer to action.
• Increasingly speak in words

At this age, your toddlers will make a significant improvement in not only physical but also intellectual and emotional. They begin to walk, run and climb with better skills, and this is when a new sense of independence emerges! As your toddlers continue to explore the world, you may see them watch and imitate others. Probably they prefer playing alone to playing in groups. However, socialization is important for children to learn their social and emotional development; therefore, introducing them to new friends is a good idea.

Appropriate Toys for 18 - 24 Months

• Fine Motor and Coordination Development - Support kids using their small muscles and hand-eye coordination by grabbing, stacking, and sorting such as large and small balls, sorting and stacking toys and wooden fruit
• Emotional Stimulation - Create their own sound by toy instruments.
• Intellectual Stimulation - Improve mathematical skills by learning about shapes, categorization, including comparing and ordering objects.
• Language Development - Encourage kids to speak in sentences such as dolls and wooden cameras like My First Camera

12 - 18 Month Development

• Twist and move easily while sitting.
• Walk independently and begin to run.
• Pick up small object with pincer grasp using either hand
• Show increasing ability to turn objects around.
• Like to participate in household chores
• Like what’s known as ‘parallel play’ where they play quite happily next to each other, but don’t actually interact
• Respond to commands
• Can stack objects
• Name or point to some parts of body
• Can sort and fit related objects together, so shape-sorter toys-wooden boxes with different shaped holes and corresponding blocks
• Point at familiar objects or people in picture.
• Respond to yes/no questions with shake/nod head.
• Express gladness when they do something successfully

Product shipping is calculated during checkout. 

Parcel Shipping:

• In general all parcel shipping products (toys, gift, strollers, carseats, etc) will ship via USPS, UPS, & FEDEX
• Shipping is Flat Rate at $8.45 for all orders under $75 and Free for orders over $75- certain products will have a spcific ship rate detailed on the product page.
• Signature Required shipment will be used on orders greater than $100 in value.  Please ship to a location where product can be signed for.
• Shipping to AK and HI (no free shipping) incurs a significant freight surcharge and expect delivery times to be extended considerably.  
• Products are often shipped "signature confirmation" - please be available at ship location to receive product - consumer will be responsible for undelivered freight charges and rerouting charges on shipments.
• all orders will ship complete - Partial or split shipments will incur additional shipping charges to be arranged directly with store in the event of partila ship request. 

Freight Shipping:

• Freight Shipping applies to all large products (furniture items - some cribs and all dressers and all room packages)
• ALL Freight products ship CURBSIDE Delivery unless an alternative shipping is selected - you can also contact store to add inside delivery (which is only transfer into the first threshhold of your home/building) to your order if selection option unavailable during checkout
• Shipping rate is based on product costs and distance from our shipping location in Columbia SC.  
• "inside delivery" options on furniture are for first threshhold of the home - typically a garage and will be dependent on if the driver can access the garage or door with the product, this does not include transport through the home.  
• Shipping rate is calculated during checkout once you have entered the shipping zipcode and prior to payment.
• Shipping to AK and HI incurs a significant freight surcharge and expect delivery times to be extended considerably.  
• all orders will ship complete - Partial or split shipments will incur additional shipping charges to be arranged directly with store in the event of partila ship request. 

please contact store at 803-788-5880 if you have specific questions or concerns