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He sounds like he's doing great! My son was evaluated and qualified for speech therapy at around 18 months, and he had, like, one word at that time. The fact that your son has around 50 sounds good, I think at that age only 50% of their language is supposed to be intelligible to people other than parents./caregivers. Is his pediatrician concerned? If so you could always get a reference for early intervention screening, for your own peace of mind, but as I said I don't think there's any cause for concern.

That sounds totally normal to me. I was concerned that M wasn't putting words together at 2 - it really exploded for her around 28-29 mo. Now at 33 mo, all she does is talk all day long and she says new phrases everyday.

At 2y/o I was also concerned about my DS not stringing together two words but he had about 100 words at that time (some were made up though - like yah-yee for yellow). At ~26 months he suddenly made many two word combos. Then at ~28 months he suddenly talked in 5-6 word sentences. And now at 2.5 he can tell me the entire 5 little monkeys jumping on the bed story!!! And also lots of no mommy stop talking. Why mommy. Geez mommy. LOL

Sounds like your LO is doing just fine. I would give him a couple months and see.

I would say normal...C only started putting 2 words together a few weeks ago and now is talking in 4-5 word sentences ("Daddy sleeping in da bed") I can't believe how quickly she progressed with it because I remember wondering at the end of July when she would really start putting two words together. It's like she had a little mini speech explosion, which I heard is quite common!

Up until then she was babbling in her own little language and the only word that made sense was the last word, lol... "Omna peta ego ili fora POOL!"

That sounds exactly like my son at 2! It is a huge range at that age. The doctor was slightly concerned that he was not stringing words together, but just said to monitor and we would re-evaluate at the 2.5 year appt. well, within the next month he had a language explosion and is now stringing 2 and 3 word phrases together all the time! So I would say don't worry about it!

E was not talking much at 2. I'm not sure how many words she had, but she definitely seemed far behind lots of my friends' kids! At 2.5, her language has exploded

sounds normal to me. my daughter could put two words together at 23 months, but then literally the week she turned two, her language exploded. his could take off in a few weeks. I feel like she went from not really making sense, to speaking in sentences overnight!