Day in the Life of a 14 month old Infant

   My day as an infant teacher is full and busy. We are constantly teaching the children through play as well as through our behavior. The children can learn about others, objects and the world around them through independent play as well as teacher directed play. The infant classroom that I work in has children from 2 1/2 months up to 14 months old. We can have infants start as young as 6 weeks. This little boy will be moving up to a toddler room soon, so I want to walk you through his day.
    Today he arrived a little later than usual at almost 9am. Usually he comes earlier since his mother works at the center too. He had not eaten much breakfast, so when he came in, he sat down at the little table to have some milk, cherrios and bananas. After he ate, he had his diaper changed then explored the puppets with me. He said, "Moo" when I showed him the cow puppet. He played independently while I gave some other children bottles. He kept kissing the one baby girl's foot as I fed her. His face lights up when he sees her. We sang the "ABC's", and he explored red play dough as he sat at the table. The lunch of cheese ravioli, bread, cauliflower and mandarin oranges was delivered around 11:30. He sat at the table and had milk with it. He played independently and explored some puzzles in the classroom after eating. He went to sleep around 12:50 and woke at 2:45. Today was his first day sleeping on a cot in order to get ready for going to the toddler unit. I was off work at 3:30, but he was going to play independently and with the other teachers until he was picked up. In the afternoon sometime, he also will go out to the large motor area outside of the class to run around and climb.