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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.
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@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").
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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.
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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?
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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.
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@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).
@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
@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).
@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.
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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.
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@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.
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@Ree723: E is similar at almost 23 months. She's stubborn and listens when she wants to.
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.
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@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.
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