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Ellie: not until around age two- two-and-a-half. She was much more of a listener. I WAS worried, and looking back I think some of her motor planning challenges played a role, but she ended up with a very large vocabulary.

Lorelei: She is fourteen months and already putting multiple words together. I have no idea how many words she can say. I feel a little bad when we play with her friends because I can tell it makes some of the moms feel uncomfortable or maybe compare. Several have said as much. I still say that when she and all the other kids are three or so you'll never know the difference.

@regberadaisy: I am waiting for this too. I keep forgetting our LOs are weeks apart. She says baba (daddy), umma, and hi and bye-bye (though the last two aren't consistent). And then there are those other gibberish words when she's "speaking" to us.

Probably around 20 months it was consistently growing for C.

@Mrs. Pen; I didn't get the sense you were. Sorry if that came out wrong. We were just at a friend's house yesterday and she told me that listening to Lorelei makes her worry about her son's speech-- and it just makes me sad because she shouldn't. I admire you for not feeling competitive about those sorts of things. I know I felt jealous when Ellie wasn't talking, so I think I feel bad hearing anyone else feeling that way because it's no fun.

@regberadaisy: LO is the same ages as yours and babbles and says her own made up words. she imitates sounds that we make and really enjoys saying yikky yakka yikky over and over, but no real words

20 months was the big explosion. Charlie went from 100 words to 200 in a month, so like 25+ new words a week and then it was sentences instead of words.

olive is 20 months now and can say almost 50 words. I think the explosion happens once they have around 100 words. they know enough words so they can string together 2-3 word sentences.

@Mrs. Bee; I've heard that, too (about 100 words or so being the threshhold). This seems to substantiate; http://www.nbcnews.com/id/20093518/ns/health-childrens_health/t/snowball-effect-helps-kids-language-explode/ And it was true for both of my girls.

My son had a language explosion at just over 2 years of age, when he went to day care for a half day 5 days a week. All of a sudden he was singing songs, like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, where a month before, he barely had 50 words.