https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:56:27 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-delay-please-weigh-in#post-2125434 Sat, 28 Mar 2015 19:22:47 +0000 MrsF 2125434@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs Green Grass: That's so wonderful to hear :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-delay-please-weigh-in#post-2125420 Sat, 28 Mar 2015 19:14:45 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 2125420@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just as a follow-up, one year later D is ahead of the language curve. He speaks in long sentences, uses new words every day... He started on the later side, but hit the ground running. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1821446 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:01:19 +0000 .twist. 1821446@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was amazed when he took his little teapot and poured "tea" into a tea cup and then drank the "tea" from the cup using the handle of the cup. </p> <p>No one taught him that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1821393 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:41:55 +0000 skipra 1821393@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is almost 2 but not a great talker yet. He did have strange choices for his first words - would say broom before consistently saying mama! The latest thing I don't know that it is surprising but I thought it was funny. We were all in the car and the baby was crying so DS told him to "be quiet!" He has never said that before or since but I'm sure it's not the last time we'll hear it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1821350 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:23:16 +0000 sandy 1821350@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: how could I forget - it's not everyday that you know someone that can play a piano piece by ear - and contemporary songs on top of that!!! I have ZERO musical ability and am so jealous of people with those skills/abilities! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1821316 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:12:08 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1821316@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sandy: I am impressed at your amazing memory! I can't believe that you remembered I am a music person. :)</p> <p>And secretly, I kind of hope she wants to pursue music like her mama. ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820797 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 07:06:35 +0000 Charm54 1820797@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dd is 11 months old, and when you ask her "What does Max (our dog) say?" She goes "Woof". Then if you say "What does Elmo say?" She goes "La la la" (from Elmo's song). No one really taught her that so I'm surprised she can say it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820794 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:53:56 +0000 travellingbee 1820794@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The other day we asked our 17 month old, Where is L? And he pointed at himself and said "Me!" Where did he get this concept of ME? We've never taught him that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820789 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:48:25 +0000 swurlygurl 1820789@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This isn't a crazy word, per se, but I was counting something out to her, and after I got to 4 she screamed 'FIVE!' at me. Whaaat?! We've never really worked on counting?! I do count to her sometimes, but never try to get her to count to me. (18 months and very few words, so I liked this one :) ) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820785 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:34:53 +0000 Bao 1820785@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She surprises me a lot. The latest being she pulled out a green marker and said "green!" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820783 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:28:06 +0000 oliviaoblivia 1820783@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD learned "squirrel" about two months before she learned "no". The words on her list are bizarre and unpredictable. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820780 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:16:03 +0000 Silva 1820780@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well, she is only 16 months, but the words she learns boggle my mind. Like green bean. Why is that one of the 35 or so words you choose to learn? You don't even really like them, unless we are at the garden... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820778 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:13:31 +0000 looch 1820778@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Same with the construction vehicles, I have learned all about telescoping booms and stabilizers. I had no idea, lol.</p> <p>What also surprises me is that he can do math in his head, unlike me. He doesn't have to count on his fingers, he knows it is 1-5 of the objects and understands the concept of "less" when you take things away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820730 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:03:54 +0000 sandy 1820730@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were in a summer reading program. The theme for one class was colors - my LO has been able to identify colors for a long time. She also knows a lot of sight words and has most of her books memorized, but it's not like we drill her. </p> <p>So at the class they had a worksheet with little mice and each mouse had a color written below it for the kids to color the correct color. I asked my LO what color the first mouse should be and she correctly told me "red" and picked up the red marker and colored it. This went on with blue, yellow, orange, green and purple (her favorite color. She has seen these words so many times that she can identify the words and pick the correct color.</p> <p>Then we get to black and I think she's going to tell me blue b/c it's a "B" word...she tells me "black"...and again she surprises me by correctly telling me the next mouse is pink (again, I thought she was going to say purple b/c it's a "P" but somehow she knew)...and again she surprises me by knowing the next mouse is grey. I am just kind of shocked b/c I have never worked on this with her...I had no idea she could just read these colors. I thought there was no way she would know the last mouse...so I say "do you know what color this mouse is supposed to be? It's kind of a hard one." And she says right away "white." I was just floored. </p> <p>She was 2 years 8 months last month when we were in the class. She was by far the youngest in the class, but was the one kid who could read all the colors on the page. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820728 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:53:57 +0000 sandy 1820728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: that is so super impressive!!! Love that song BTW. Looks like she inherited your musical talent! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820727 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:48:31 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1820727@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She knows the lyrics to "All my Lovin" by The Beatles, verbatim! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820726 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:48:26 +0000 JennyD 1820726@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Totem pole!</p> <p>And the difference between antlers and horns! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820717 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:32:05 +0000 Mama Bird 1820717@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS has been obsessed with scooters for months, so my mom finally bought him one of his own. We took the new scooter on vacation, still in the box. Turned out it needed some assembly. DS surprised me by bursting into tears when he heard: "Oh no, we don't have a screwdriver to put this together!" Then shocked me even more when he got off the scooter and stopped crying after I said "Daddy will find someone with a screwdriver while you nap!" He's usually all about right now - I had no clue he has that much patience or knows what a screwdriver is :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820600 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 21:08:22 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 1820600@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm surprised by all the random things he says: animal names, "ready...set...go!", talking about things that happened hours ago, singing songs he learned from daycare without prompting. He's constantly amazing me! </p> <p>A gem from yesterday: "toot. Toot on daddy. From butt." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/words-that-you-are-surprised-your-toddler-knows-at-hisher-age#post-1820582 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:44:43 +0000 irene 1820582@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Strange title huh.... What are some of the words / things that you are surprised your toddler knows at his age, that you probably didn't know when you were his/her age, or didn't even know until now? </p> <p>LO is obsessed with trains, so we bought many books about trains. Some of the books teach about the name of each car (engine, tender, hopper car, gondola car, caboose), the different roles on the train (engineer, fireman, brakesman, conductor), and even the actual parts of the steam engine (I had no idea what pistons are until recently!). LO isn't into the actual components of the steam engine yet, but he definitely know about tender, caboose, engineer...etc. that to be honest, I had no idea what they are called until now. </p> <p>And also, I didn't know what the different machineries (excavator, bulldozer, crane truck, cement mixer...etc) are called in a construction site. I wouldn't know if LO didn't have a great interest in the topic, and we just learned about them together. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-delay-please-weigh-in#post-1499792 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 20:39:04 +0000 Mrs. Stroller 1499792@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're going through the EI process right now for speech. I put it off for a really long time and took a wait and see approach. I finally called for info and ended up scheduling a meeting. The process has been great so far. It's a relief to know one way or the other if something is wrong. So my advice is to go with your instincts. If you think he might be delayed, call for an eval. It's pretty easy and in our town they came to our house. Definitely worth the peace of mind for me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-delay-please-weigh-in#post-1499526 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:22:03 +0000 MrsMccarthy 1499526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs Green Grass: oh i just saw you posted that above. That is great! It also probably makes sense for a preemie like he is to be a bit later to the game with some of this stuff. He sounds like he is covered and doing great. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-delay-please-weigh-in#post-1499446 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:57:06 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 1499446@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Twine: thanks &lt;3<br /> @MrsMccarthy: just read your follow-up post...glad it went well! Dylan gets followed by a high-risk clinic no matter what since he was born so young and it's all covered. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-delay-please-weigh-in#post-1499339 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:04:23 +0000 MrsMccarthy 1499339@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I second Mrs. Twine in feeling that he sounds like he is on track and he is still so young but EI is free, they do a lot of follow up and can be very helpful in getting more out of him or keeping an eye on his progress as they are doing with my son. In my sons case its more about attention and language is normal but he was around where your son is now when he was your sons age and a lot of language started coming in between 15 and 18 months. He sounds like a wonderful boy. good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-delay-please-weigh-in#post-1499331 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:59:23 +0000 Mrs. Twine 1499331@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs Green Grass: I think language is really easy to feel worried about, but it also most often turns out well. I know your home is language rich and he is exposed to what he needs to be in order to do really well later on. And since he'll have the evaluation anyway, if he needs any additional services he'll get them. I'm pretty confident that before too terribly long you'll be able to look back and wish you could have told yourself that you didn't have to worry. &lt;3 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-delay-please-weigh-in#post-1499330 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:58:35 +0000 skipra 1499330@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm pretty sure DS was about that point at 12 months. I thought he was behind because we were in playgroup with some kids that were more advanced (for example pointing at and saying "bubble"). The doctor has not been concerned and he is definitely learning new things every day. Because of this I am not worrying about it. At 18 months he is pointing at everything and saying "What's that?" ALL DAY LONG. He also has finally started waving consistently. He could do it before but it was sporadic or only after people walked away. I think language development is often a bit slower for boys, especially if they develop other areas early. If his doctor is not worried and he is on track with everything else I would try not to stress about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-delay-please-weigh-in#post-1499327 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:56:16 +0000 Mrs. Twine 1499327@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think with Ellie it was the fact that she wasn't making any noises at all, really, speech or non-speech related. So other than crying and the one or so word she had, she was just silent other than grunting. Being able to make a wide variety of sounds is encouraging. Also, she had a huge gap between receptive and expressive language. I think it's usually less worrisome when there's less variance.<br /> @swurlygurl: Ellie is very much an observer, too. When she finally did do anything we were worried about, she did it in a big way. It can be really fun to watch. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-delay-please-weigh-in#post-1499326 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:56:05 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 1499326@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Twine: we are already followed by the high-risk clinic since he was a 25-weeker so we will be evaluated in April no matter what which is good. I just needed to hear some stories today! I agree about the whole development. The only part that stops me is that I call him really physical, but he's still not walking...but he climbs, goes in and out of the doggie door face/first (whoops), can stand up without his hands etc...</p> <p>Thanks for all of the stories so far! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-delay-please-weigh-in#post-1499292 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:39:22 +0000 swurlygurl 1499292@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So, to answer your question... I don't think he's behind! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-delay-please-weigh-in#post-1499289 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:37:52 +0000 swurlygurl 1499289@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That sounds pretty close to L! She's 14 months, and zero words. I think she tries to mimic 'uh oh' and 'hello' sometimes, but it's not consistent.<br /> She doesn't have a ton of vowels that she uses, mostly 'dadadada' (but not in reference to DH) and 'vvvvv'.<br /> She'll point sometimes, but not like she's asking me for something. It's like she's just doing it for fun, she'll walk around pointing<br /> No head shaking<br /> Comprehension of "No' and 'Bye Bye' is slim, but it looks to be slowly improving</p> <p>I'd say just in the last couple weeks has she even been understanding of commands/statements (where's your lion, bring Mommy your socks, Daddy's home, etc), and it's only with words she's VERY familiar with, that we work with her a lot on.</p> <p>I was kind of worried for a while, but she's an observer (Fringe anyone?? Haha :) ), so she likes to watch and have a really good grasp on things before she does them herself (walking, crawling, sitting, etc) </p>