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R is almost 27 months and he speaks in full sentences now - his dictation is still lacking in some areas but I can understand most everything he says. He asks questions and provides a running commentary, which is adorable ("mama, look at what him doing!" or "how's your dinner?" or "daddy put me bed last night.") Huge change since he reached age 2!

@LBee: HA, I don't even know 25 species of dinosaurs!!

DS is 2 years 3 months and his verbal has definitely exploded since turning 2. I no longer count the number of words but he can say things like, "What's that noise?" "Mommy where are you?" "Let's go fly a kite" etc. His most interesting word so far is excavator.

I love this age so much!

Almost 2 and several hundred. No way I could count them all. Knows her colors, different types of vehicles, so many animals, I think DH counted that she knows 10+ different types of birds alone. It's crazy how fast it happens. She only said Daddy and kitty when she turned 1. She mostly speaks in 4-5 word sentences. "I need to go potty", "daddy's taking a shower", etc.

Our 2 are total opposites.

DS1 was talking in 2-3 word sentences by 18 months. We couldn't count how many words. He was a super early talker, and behind in his motor skills.

DS2 was always ahead on his motor skills, and at 18m had barely 10-15 words. He's since had an explosion, and at 19m, has probably closer to 30 words. He will at least repeat a lot now. We're getting there!

SO many! At almost two, he has hundreds...all his colors, can count to around 14 and is starting to speak in 3-4 word sentences (He fell down or Time to take a bath? are favorite ones). He can also sing at least a dozen songs fairly well. Happy Birthday is his newest favorite, but he does pretty good with 3 Blind Mice, Bah Bah Black Sheep and gets about halfway through the ABC's. I'm loving getting to see how his little mind works now that he can communicate more. Such a fun age!

I remember being a little nervous about this topic, even though my DS1 was well within the norm. He had a huge explosion @2. I never counted words though.

about 20 months, and god, maybe 10 words at the most. barely understandable. not stringing words together. LO1 was the same way (is now 4 and talking fine), and everything else seems normal, so i'm not too worried about it.

So interesting how variable the development can be! Our LO is 21 mos & has more words than we can count. We did make a list after her first big language explosion around 18 mos & back then she easily had 200 words. She will attempt any word we give her, uses 2-3 word sentences, & she picks up new words every day. It's so much fun & also has been really helpful to start getting more communicative. Just today she told me "tummy ouch" which may explain why she has been so cranky today.
Our nephew is 3, and he didn't really start talking until 2, but advanced quickly.

Wow! This is freaking me out lol. DS is 14 months and only says mama and baba. Honestly he's still into making noises. With that being said he's at the far end of everything so far. Didn't start crawling till 2 days before he turned 1 and still not pulling himself up. His ped didn't seem concerned at his 12 month but we'll see at his 15 month

@Jackiedavis87: My niece ended up doing speech after her 18 month appointment when she wasn't saying many words. She was also a late walker. She is such a chatter box now at 3. Some kids just talk a little later.

@Jackiedavis87: My youngest son is 16 months and only said mama & dada, and his older brother's name at his 15 month checkup. Now he has close to 20-25 words and it all happened quickly!

14 months is still super young. There is a huge range of normal with this stuff. My oldest only said mama and dada at that point, too, but had a huge word explosion around 18-19 months and by age 2 he was ahead in speech. The most important thing to look for at this point is receptive speech (understanding what you say, responding to their name, etc)

DD is interesting. She had 10+ by 12 months then lost almost all of them. We questioned whether she may be on the spectrum (her cousins are) and took her to the doctor who found she had such bad fluid in her ears that she could her very little and hadn't heard clearly in months. At 18 months we had surgery and it picked up from there. At 2 she had around 300 (because of her background I kept counting). She now has maybe 1000 at 2.5 and typically speaks in 4-5 word sentences (with typical grammar issues)

@wrkbrk: Animal sounds count as words. That is according to our speech therapist.

DS is 29 months and has about 50 words. He is in the midst of his language explosion.

@wrkbrk: T didn't even have those words at 15 months. He had about 5 signs that he used occasionally and he would only babble occasionally. He's almost 19 months now and has at least 25, maybe more, spoken words.

DD1 will be 2 in just over a week, and I've lost count. She talks in (mostly) full sentence, but omits a lot of the joining words like it/the/and, etc (for example, she will say "Where red truck be?" or "Mommy wash dishes sink") In her day to day, there isn't really something she encounters that she doesn't have a word for, and if she does, we only have to say it once or twice before it becomes a part of her vocabulary.