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.