B is 17 months old and doesn't have many words. I know you aren't supposed to compare, but it's glaringly obvious when we around other kids his age.

The weird thing is, he will learn a new word, use it in the correct context for a week or two, and then never use it again. For example, he learned the word "tree." Whenever we saw a tree he would point and say the word. Now, even with prompting, he won't say tree. This has been his pattern with most words. It's almost as if as soon as he has a word down he refuses to ever utter it again?

At 17 months, the only words he says consistently are mama, dada, and ball.

He will repeat words that we say immediately after we say them and he babbles a lot with varying degrees of inflection. He's also going through a stage where all day he points and wants to know the word for EVERYTHING.

Should we be concerned? Is there any chance he's just committing words to memory and waiting to bust them all out when he has his language explosion?

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