dbride2006, your son says 30!! words!?!?

Miss.Modular · December 2009

holyshiz. what does he say?

DBride2006 · December 2009

Insane, right?!

The words he really knows: Dog, Ball, Mama, Dada, Boot (shoe), Balloon, Diaper, Night Night, No, Cracker, Hot, Tractor (for all things with wheels), up, down, out, Bath, eye, milk, hat and maybe a few others. These are things he definitely identifies and will say without prompting.

He can also say cheese, doctor, dirt, all done, thank you, more, mouth, fish a few more but those are more just repeating me. I'm not convinced he "knows" what those mean. ?

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Miss.Modular · December 2009

i am impressed!!!!

Cassandra1028 · December 2009

Please tell me how he learned these. Did you do a lot of repetitive teaching of each word, or did he just pick it up?

DBride2006 · December 2009

It's pretty bizarre. He started signing the few things we taught him around 7 months (more and all done), and said "ball" by 8 months. He added in a few more from 8-10 months and in the last month it just TOOK off.?

Some of the words require a "trained ear" to distinguish, but I've had complete strangers understand many of them... tractor, dog, etc. Sometimes he'll say something and I'll have to look around to see what he's talking about and sure enough, there will be a hat or boot (shoe) in sight.

He is a clone of DH in almost every way, but I think he got my motor mouth... poor kid. ?

Pumpkin111 · December 2009

Dang! I thought we were doing good with Mama, Dada, and Bye Bye! hahah

BugLuv · December 2009

That is so awesome - Kellan just started signing his first word - milk. I am so proud. I can't wait til he starts doing more and then finally talking!

Do you do lots of reading?

DBride2006 · December 2009

We just started reading regularly the last couple months. Before he would just crawl away, but now he loves it. We read every night before bed at the least. He'll ask for his "book" and sit very still while I read.?

I talk to him A LOT and certainly show him things and repeat words over and over (I work from home so I spend a lot of time looking for things to do/show him).

But I don't think it was anything in particular I did. He was just receptive to language at an early age and I encourage it. ?

elizabethlayne · December 2009

I was a very verbal child according to my mom she said I first started speaking a 9 months. My DS though doesn't say much though and what he does say he really just copies. He is almost walking though and I didn't walk till after 14 months (I was very lazy apparently).

goodheartedmommy · December 2009

I really think it's just personality. DD1 had so many words at 1...probably 50. She was already putting 3+ words together at her first birthday party. DS, on the other hand, had about 10 words before age 2. DD2 seems to be following in DS's footsteps. I certainly didn't do anything differently between them.

wellfleet04 · December 2009

That is awesome! How fun! My DD was also an "early" talker. She had hundreds of words by 15 months and was talking in sentences. By 20ish months she talked like an adult (proper tenses, pronouns, sentence structure, etc) and knew all of her letters upper and lower case and numbers. She's 2.5 now and can "read" about 50 words. But she didn't stand independently until 17 months and walked at 18 months. It was so weird to have a kid who could talk in sentences crawling around!

I didn't really do anything to encourage it, she was just a nerd and picked it up from everyday conversation, books, etc.

Language development is really weird and not linear at all. Some kids have a bunch of words early and then stall, some say next to nothing and then bust out with perfect speech around 2ish. Most of DD's friends are basically "caught up" with her now, even the ones who were barely talking at 2 years old.

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