https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 04 May 2026 18:49:44 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1/page/2#post-1611271 Sun, 04 May 2014 03:03:27 +0000 SugarplumsMom 1611271@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ree723: Thank you for posting this. DD is the same way! Except instead of words, she tries to say short expressions. Where is it? What's that? Where are my socks??!! But her vocabulary is very limited (the stuff we actually understand). She does go on and on like she's talking to herself though ... voice flucuations and all. It's very complex sounding, we just don't understand it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1/page/2#post-1610553 Sat, 03 May 2014 09:08:24 +0000 HLK208 1610553@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ree723: E is similar at almost 23 months. She's stubborn and listens when she wants to. </p> <p>20 months for DS though. Still waiting on DD to talk more (she'll say short sentences and she'll sing but she's just not super clear). Please is "plea" and thank you is "thank", she just leaves out the end of words and she won't copy words we use or say to her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1/page/2#post-1610511 Sat, 03 May 2014 08:15:53 +0000 Weagle 1610511@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: I would say he's on the early side. I know at least 30 kids his age. Few (maybe 5? 7?) had that many words at 18 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1/page/2#post-1610451 Sat, 03 May 2014 06:54:31 +0000 yellowbird 1610451@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Around 18 months for us. She went from saying things predictably to saying everything and using small sentences. At 20 months now I can't even count words. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1/page/2#post-1610435 Sat, 03 May 2014 06:13:26 +0000 hilsy85 1610435@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mamimami: that's true! I guess I"m mainly looking for more clarity in what he says, as well as retaining words that he hears a lot (colors, animals, etc). </p> <p>@Beehive: ha I just started doing it when he started talking and kept going. I'm way behind now though...that's exciting about the clarity of his speech! That's what I'm waiting for, we are no where near "duck" it seems :)</p> <p> @Weagle: hm interesting! I don't know if LO would be considered an early talker...? but maybe it would make sense that early talkers would be more gradual, kind of the same way babies who start taking steps earlier seem to kind of gradually become walkers, as opposed to babies who take steps a bit later and just take off one day (in my experience). </p> <p>@Running Elley: ok so it seems like 19 months is a pretty key time for a lot of ppl! L is also starting to do phrases--90% of them have car, truck, beep, or go in them, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1/page/2#post-1610239 Fri, 02 May 2014 22:06:45 +0000 Running Elley 1610239@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He'd been steadily gaining since about 13 months but I'd say 18-19 months has been his explosion. He says almost everything now and is constantly talking and saying tons of new things. It was really a gradual explosion lol. I can't even count how many words he has now...definitely over 200. He's also recently started stringing 2 or 3 words together. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1/page/2#post-1610211 Fri, 02 May 2014 21:48:47 +0000 Weagle 1610211@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think there was a distinguishable explosion. She just kept adding on words at a steady pace. LO was a super early talker, though. She had several hundred words by 18 months and has been speaking in complete 5-6 word sentences/having conversations since Christmas. She turns 2 next week. We joke that we really hope she hasn't peaked in toddlerhood! I wonder if there's a difference in a clear explosion/no explosion based on how early they start talking? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1/page/2#post-1610201 Fri, 02 May 2014 21:43:32 +0000 katsupgirl 1610201@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I guess I'm going with around 18 months cause she's started to really make up her own 2-3 word phrases. Not just mimicking phrases. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1/page/2#post-1610090 Fri, 02 May 2014 20:53:54 +0000 Beehive 1610090@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: Are we really supposed to be counting all their words? Eek! It sounds like L is doing well. J has just recently started putting words together into phrases... he has a lot of words, but I don't count them. He'll repeat anything we say, and retains a lot of the words. I'm not sure if it's at "explosion" level, but it's fun to see all the new words he picks up (and to see how he is starting to pronounce his old words better... in the past week "duh" has become "duck"). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1/page/2#post-1610084 Fri, 02 May 2014 20:51:28 +0000 mamimami 1610084@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>80 to 90 words is a LOT. My son at 18 months said 13 words. And the doctor said he should have 20 at that age. But he was and is fine, in fact he is a great speaker now at age three, in two languages. I'd say his explosion came somewhere around 29-22 months-ish? But when your child already has so many words an explosion might be less... Explosive. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1610024 Fri, 02 May 2014 20:28:50 +0000 Ree723 1610024@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Umm, my stubborn child is 22 months and still no language explosion. She has a language entirely of her own devising, it's just not intelligible to us. She seems to have no interest in saying 'real' words, although when the mood strikes her, she will bust out words for items we had no idea she knew (harmonica?! She'd seen a harmonica once, weeks earlier, and remembered its name and was able to say it pretty clearly, just once though) but for the most part, still no proper words on a consistent basis other than 'boo' and 'mama'. Our GP isn't worried and thinks it is more her personality than a problem, that's my gut feeling too, but I will say, reading all these posts does sometimes make me worry a bit.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1609958 Fri, 02 May 2014 20:04:28 +0000 hilsy85 1609958@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hummusgirl: oooh will have to look that up! I think if L could touch a real fire truck, his head might explode from excitement :) @mrskc: yup our pedi said 10 is totally normal at this age, she was impressed with his vocab! He also sometimes will say something and then not repeat it for a while. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1609592 Fri, 02 May 2014 16:55:11 +0000 BananaPancakes 1609592@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd say around 22 months. It seems a lot of hellobee toddlers hit it around the 18/19 month mark, so I was expecting it then, but it took a while longer. Now I'm surprised daily about what he says and retains. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1609557 Fri, 02 May 2014 16:38:07 +0000 SugarplumsMom 1609557@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're still waiting at 22 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1609301 Fri, 02 May 2014 15:03:18 +0000 mrskc 1609301@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: whoa! 80 words! DS has like 10 but his ped said that was completely normal for his age. He is starting to pick up more and more words. He'll sometimes only say a word once or twice and I never hear him say it again. I'm curious when he'll start really picking up words. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1609280 Fri, 02 May 2014 14:51:44 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 1609280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This thread is really helpful! LO is 15 months and just started actually mimicking (occasionally) and answering questions (just one question...what is this? -&gt; cow...or moo). He's gone from 3-4 words to close to 10 in the last couple of weeks. But in general his expressive language is very, very slow. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1609126 Fri, 02 May 2014 13:42:33 +0000 hummusgirl 1609126@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: LOL, could anything be *less* useful for NYC kids than backhoe diggers and trackors?! There's a "touch a truck" event in a few weeks that we're planning to attend - I never understood the concept or why it would be a draw for kids until the last few months! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1609086 Fri, 02 May 2014 13:27:46 +0000 Andrea 1609086@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both kids started speaking and learning new words very quickly at 15 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1609063 Fri, 02 May 2014 13:18:03 +0000 LuLu Mom 1609063@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Emme had hers at 17 months and kind of stalled, I started to get worried, but at 19 months she's back at it again. She surprises me every day. I do think she's losing some of her "clearness" as she learns more words, very similar sounding but it's adorable. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1609037 Fri, 02 May 2014 13:10:35 +0000 hilsy85 1609037@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hummusgirl: ha same here--vehicle/transportation words are a huge percentage of his words--he can say backhoe digger (sounds like baca dig dig) but won't say other simpler words. So funny. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1609010 Fri, 02 May 2014 13:04:46 +0000 winniebee 1609010@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Around 18 months it started he probably only had 50 words and now at almost 24 months he has hundreds and has 2-3 word sentences. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1609004 Fri, 02 May 2014 13:02:44 +0000 hummusgirl 1609004@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think we're in the midst of an explosion - my 19mo has about 170 words, most from the past month or two. They tend to come in categories. Vehicles probably account for 50% of them! His primary form of entertainment is staring out the window of our busy street so my MIL bought him a book on "things that go" and he's picked up a lot: car, police car, convertible, ambulance, Jeep, tractor, truck, delivery truck, garbage truck, firetruck, tow truck, airplane, helicopter, cruise ship, school bus, taxi..... Some are better enunciated than others, like taxi is pretty clear but police car sounds like "puh-ee-ka" and it took us a while to understand what he was saying (we were like, "peacock?"). </p> <p>When I unload the dishwasher I hold up each thing and name it, and he started saying fork, spoon, knife, plate and bowl all around the same time ("fork" sounds like the f-word though ;-)) Same with animals, colors and foods. </p> <p>We just had a doc appt and our ped said the goal is 50 words by age 2 so it seems like there's an huge range of normal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1608982 Fri, 02 May 2014 12:58:24 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1608982@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: ah, okay! Well, recently then! Maybe Christmas time. She would have been 26 months! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1608966 Fri, 02 May 2014 12:55:00 +0000 googly-eyes 1608966@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know if we have hit it yet because I feel like at been little "explosions" here and there rather than this one large one everyone references... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1608964 Fri, 02 May 2014 12:54:53 +0000 MrsMccarthy 1608964@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No explosion yet here. He adds words here an there but it's very gradual for the mist part. He is 20 months next week. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1608951 Fri, 02 May 2014 12:51:09 +0000 hilsy85 1608951@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Interesting that some kids never had one but if they did, it was noticeable! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1608944 Fri, 02 May 2014 12:50:32 +0000 hilsy85 1608944@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: I guess the point at which you feel like she was constantly increasing her vocab, and her words became easier to understand by strangers. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1608941 Fri, 02 May 2014 12:50:05 +0000 autumnlove 1608941@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>20 months! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1608902 Fri, 02 May 2014 12:39:18 +0000 littlek 1608902@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think he's had an explosion yet. He talks in 2 or 3 word sentences. He just moved up to early preschool and they are all older than 2 and have TONS more words than LO. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/language-explosion-1#post-1608888 Fri, 02 May 2014 12:36:44 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1608888@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When do you guys consider a language explosion to be?</p> <p>Chloe could say a few words at 12 months, and could string very simple sentences ("I want!") by 18. Her vocabulary really picked up at 22/23 months, and she's speaking in full sentences for awhile now (30 months). I think preschool played a huge role in this! </p>