Day 297- Growing Vocabulary

If you read up on baby and toddler milestones, you might know that there is a supposed expected vocabulary explosion between 18 and 24 months. According to most language development charts, at this point, kids should know "several" single words, and by age 2, they should be starting to string together short 2-4 word sentences.

Nora talks non-stop, but I probably only understand 5% of what she says. Her word list now includes about 15 recognizable words that she uses regularly and unprompted. There are other things she says that may or may not be words. Ms. Tracy and some of my friends swear she is saying more than I am giving her credit for. Perhaps it is the English teacher in me that has set the bar too high for what counts as an actual word.

Lately, she has been repeating a lot more of what we say, and tonight, she picked up her newest word: "apple".  We were walking through the grocery store, and I asked Brad if we needed apples. Nora immediately said "apple".  It really sounded more like "abble", but whatever. I asked her to say it a few more times, and she did. We showed her the apples, and she said it again. When we got home, we gave her an apple, and she said it again.

Abble!

Hooray for new words!