By this week, your baby will start to remember more specific information, such as where the toys are in the house. He or she will also be able to imitate actions seen as long as a week before.
These skills indicate that your baby has recall memory – the ability to remember some details of a specific experience for a short time – though he or she still doesn't remember most experiences. Long-lasting conscious memory of specific events won't develop until your baby's second or third year, when real language emerges.
Playing and learning
Your baby can now put objects in a container and remove them. Offer a bucket and some colorful blocks to practice this new skill. (Make sure they're not so small that they can be swallowed.) Your baby also likes toys with moving parts, such as knobs, levers, or doors that open and close. Big cars that your baby can wheel around on the floor are fun playthings, too.
If you take a toy away, your increasingly assertive baby is likely to object. Your baby is really starting to be able to make his or her needs and wants known. Some sound advice: Offer something new before you take the other object away.
About half of babies this age will initiate passing games – giving away objects and then taking them back. Be your baby's playmate. Try rolling a ball to your baby and see whether he or she rolls it back to you. Offer a sorting toy or stacking rings and see if he or she sorts or stacks or hands the pieces to you. Your baby will also like to share his or her food, so accept these "gifts" graciously.