https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:51:27 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have/page/2#post-2410777 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 02:06:36 +0000 Pumpkin Pie 2410777@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 15 months, and only uses "uh oh" correctly. She says Dada, and wawa but not sure she knows what they mean. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have/page/2#post-2410749 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 23:55:41 +0000 anonysquire 2410749@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's funny, she said like 3 words at 12 months and then by 18 months probably knew 50 and now at 22 months I can't ever get her to stop talking. It's basically like talking to an adult. She can say what she wants and calls people by name. But don't try and teach her colors!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have/page/2#post-2410649 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:57:47 +0000 regberadaisy 2410649@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gilmoregirl: haha yes, I agree. I imagine the hundreds plus are counting sounds, Word, noises and those only mom understands. :) Which I know, for all purposes from The peds pov is what they want you to do. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have/page/2#post-2410647 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:54:51 +0000 gilmoregirl 2410647@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@runnerd: @regberadaisy: I always think this type of question is really interesting because perspective matters so much. Like, I say my kid has too many to count, but I got lazy and stopped counting at like, 40 words. But for someone else, too many to count could be much higher or lower. </p> <p>I also count animal sounds as words (his doctor told me I should) and I count words that I understand but are still mispronunciations (ie, he says "oh-wee" for "orange" but I def count it). </p> <p>By any count, he had three words at 16 months :) Anyway, no real point to this; I just think these things are really interesting! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have/page/2#post-2410368 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 16:02:03 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 2410368@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD2 is 25 months, so she's just over 2, but she has hundreds...thousands? of words. She talks in complete, complex sentences. She started saying single words at 10 months!</p> <p>Today she fell down in the living room and said: "Why is that vacuum there? It's okay, it was just an accident." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have/page/2#post-2410308 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 15:18:52 +0000 Bubbles 2410308@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow some kids are talking so much so early! My DS has just turned 2 and says ALL the words - but at 18 months he said about 3 words! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have/page/2#post-2410293 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 15:08:26 +0000 hony bologna 2410293@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I kept track for her 15-month appointment and have kept going (though I'll probably stop soon). She just turned 16 months and says about 90 words, but isn't putting them together yet. Maybe because she's bilingual? The two languages have very different grammatical structures. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have/page/2#post-2410171 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 13:29:10 +0000 mauxie 2410171@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 21 months and I stopped keeping track a while ago. He started speaking in full sentences around 20 months? At his 18 month checkup, he was stringing 2-3 words together. </p> <p>DD had her language explosion right around 22/23 months and was speaking understandably in full sentences by 2. </p> <p>I think having big sis around chattering all day made a difference for DS. He skipped a lot of the little quirky toddler speak (ex: DD would say "hold you" for "hold me"; he'll say "Mommy, I wanna hold you"). He's also picked up on a lot of her wonderful phrases like "Leave me aloooone," "Stop it! I don't like/want that," etc haha. </p> <p>Funny thing though is that he still says "milk" and "water" interchangeably! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have/page/2#post-2410112 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:39:42 +0000 daniellemybelle 2410112@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>By the time LO was 2 I had lost count. Probably 100 or more? She is very verbal.</p> <p>My cousin's son is newly 2 and I think he has less than 10 words. There is such a huge variety. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have/page/2#post-2410111 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:38:04 +0000 MrsKoala 2410111@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO turns 2 next month. I stopped counting when he hit 100. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have/page/2#post-2410102 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:34:05 +0000 yin 2410102@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO2 is 26 months old, and I'm patiently waiting for a language explosion. LO1 was delayed a bit, but he caught up fast. I'm waiting for the same with LO2. He has a decent amount of words, but his progress is slow. Plus he isn't putting words together. Eh. Pretty sure his stubborn personality has something to do with this. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have/page/2#post-2410085 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:26:30 +0000 chibee 2410085@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Also crazy first time mom here guilty of keeping a list - 16 months and up to 60. He has really picked up the pace lately and is learning at least a new word every day which has been really fun for us to witness! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have/page/2#post-2409917 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:38:01 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 2409917@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD1 was speaking 3-4 word sentences at 2 yrs old. DD2 is 3 months shy of 2 yrs old and only has about 5 words. She can understand everything we say and she can communicate what she wants in other ways, but she just doesn't like to talk. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have/page/2#post-2409893 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:20:40 +0000 snowjewelz 2409893@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's probably personality too! DD is 13 mo and a chatterbox. I'd say for real words where it's clear and I know she knows what it means, probably 20. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have/page/2#post-2409726 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 08:57:16 +0000 erinbaderin 2409726@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@skipra: We have 3 cats (Olivia, Lola, and Penny) and my son thinks they're named Lola, Black Lola, and NO PENNY! He just walks around the house yelling "NO PENNY!" at her whenever he sees her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have#post-2409710 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 08:44:00 +0000 travellingbee 2409710@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just looked back to my list I made and he had 35 words at 18 months. By 2 years he was speaking in full sentences and singing full songs so it really exploded between 18-24 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have#post-2409672 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 07:58:57 +0000 knittylady 2409672@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS 2 is 16 months and has a bunch of animal noises and mama, wawa, bath, go, again, baby, more, ni-ni (night night), and cup. Maybe more I'm forgetting? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have#post-2409593 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 01:43:16 +0000 gingerbebe 2409593@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Uh, my son is turning 16 months tomorrow and the only word he's used correctly in context so far is "bop" which is the Korean word for "rice" or "food." He calls his new Cozy Coupe his "ba-bang" which is what Koreans call a car in baby talk. He also quacks like a Korean duck and says "kek-kek." He roars when he sees a picture of a lion sometimes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have#post-2409589 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 01:31:18 +0000 lamariniere 2409589@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DD turned 2 a month ago and I lost track. Her language explosion was around 20 months and it really was an explosion. She went from a few words to talking full, fairly complex sentences in a matter of weeks. </p> <p>DS's explosion was at 18 months and within a month, I lost track because he had so many words. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have#post-2409585 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:56:43 +0000 stratosphere 2409585@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our pediatrician told us at LO's 12 month appointment that she would be asking us how many words LO has at the 15 month appointment. So my husband started a Google spreadsheet that he shared with me to keep track, as we both doubted we would be able to accurately keep track of more than 5 words between sleep deprivation and our crazy jobs -- the Google spreadsheet is perfect because we can both edit it from our phones to add LO's new words before we forget them. He loves tracking this. Each word is one row so it's easy to count, too. Just a tip for other super nerdy mamas/papas out there! (Also, for fun, and to preserve the memory, which I know we will forget, the first column of a given row is the "real" word that we know LO is trying to say, while the second column of the row is her actual pronunciation of it, so "shower" -&gt; "shau shau" or "berry"-&gt; "wee wee")</p> <p>At 12 months she didn't have any words other than "agua" and "dada", but she started picking them up pretty quickly at 14 months and lately she has been on fire. She just turned 17 months and she has 214 words, according to our Google sheet. We don't count animal sounds (I suppose she has a dozen or so of those) and we count words that she says in both Spanish and English as one word (so she sometimes says "bear" and sometimes says "oso" but I count that as one word on our list--same for "hand"/"manos", "gracias"/"thank you", etc). Our other rule is she has to say the word multiple times to us (nanny telling us she is saying a given word isn't good enough) in the correct context and unprompted in order to add it (so we are sure she knows what she is saying, it has become part of her vocabulary and she is not just parroting). </p> <p>I think the fact that we have an easy way to record the words she is using (and we can use the search function to make sure we don't already have a given word on the list) means that she gets "full credit" for all her words, which I'm sure she wouldn't get if we were relying on unreliable human (parental) memory. I bet after you get beyond 40-50 words most folks actually underestimate the number of words their LO has. </p> <p>Also, I think every kid's language explosion hits at a different time and hers is clearly happening right now. I can't wait for more sentences and word combinations - only a few of those so far. Mostly she just seems to like labeling things and activities - especially the ones she wants to be able to request (like "more drawing!" - her constant refrain since she got an easel and crayons for Christmas; since she only has access to the crayons under supervision she has need for the neverending verbal requests!). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have#post-2409570 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:11:03 +0000 Miss Ariel 2409570@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: uh oh was dd's first word! Besides that, at 12 months she's also saying hi. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have#post-2409563 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 23:49:34 +0000 BabyTsMom 2409563@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>at 16 months, he had exactly 3 words. Now, at 19 months, he has too many for me to count. He picks up a few new words every day. He doesn't speak in sentences yet though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have#post-2409538 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 22:50:40 +0000 matador84 2409538@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>22 months--tons, not sure on a #! She just started talking in sentences. She loves to say, "I do it!" "Sit here, Mama!" She's a total chatterbox. It's so cute when she says "(DS), wake up, Mama wake up!" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have#post-2409450 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 21:21:43 +0000 twodoghouse 2409450@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A (20 months) probably has 50-75? I stopped counting. She will repeat anything I say (or attempt to), but I don't know if that counts as additional words. She just recently started stringing words together into 2-3 word sentences. </p> <p>B (also 20 months) has maybe 25-30 words, plus a few more sounds that he uses consistently (he says "nuh" for nurse and milk. Does that count as a word?). He's been getting more words recently, but does not speak as clearly or as much as his twin sister. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have#post-2409438 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 21:12:04 +0000 FaithFertility 2409438@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>All dogs to my 12 month old are "Bella" our dogs name :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have#post-2409433 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 21:09:58 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 2409433@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@skipra: haha my son calls our dog by her name, but every once in a while bends right down to her face and says hi baby!!! So funny. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have#post-2409426 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 21:04:45 +0000 winniebee 2409426@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Almost 13 months and no real words. Lots of consonants and dads mama but I don't know if he knows what he is saying. I'm not worried as DS1 didn't have real words until 15 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have#post-2409417 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:59:55 +0000 jape14 2409417@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LBee: omg I love it! I count animal noises too - J calls a chicken a "bawk bawk" and a horse a "neigh neigh." :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have#post-2409412 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:54:28 +0000 regberadaisy 2409412@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T.H.O.U.: I can't wait for uh oh. I love baby uh ohs!!!</p> <p>@artsyfartsy: I think that's really good!</p> <p>@runnerd: LOL I personally don't count it if others can't understand or if she doesn't constantly say it. ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-words-does-your-2-amp-under-toddler-have#post-2409411 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:54:20 +0000 LBee 2409411@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jape14: T calls my parent's dog "bad" and will try to discipline him. </p>