We don't spend much time around other kids, so our perspective on toddler development is pretty skewed. I do get a monthly email from BabyCenter that includes some average developmental milestones. Friday's BabyCenter email said that the average vocab for a 22-month-old is 20 words.
"20 words? You've got to be kidding!" husband said. "Bean knows WAY MORE than 20."
So we decided to count. Not that we're competitive or anything ;), but we decided to write down all the words we heard Bean say this weekend. Our rules were that we would only count words we heard (not words we have heard in the past), and we wouldn't count mimicking (because she does a TON of that). Basically, she had to use the word independently and in the proper context. We weren't super diligent about capturing every word, but we easily made it past 100.
"She's BRILLIANT!" husband concluded. I'm more conservative in my judgment: a little gifted.
I think the most telling thing about this experiment is that we had nothing better to do than track our child's speech for a whole weekend.
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She's a GENIUS!
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