Normal for 2.3 year old?

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DS can say the next number in a sequence and can also recognise a triangle, circle and square. I don't think DD did this at this age, although I can't remember. Just wondered if it was common to be able to do this. His language skills aren't as great as DD's were, so it has surprised me.

DD knew all her colours and shapes at 14 months incl. hearts, hexagons etc. She could count to 20 by age 2.2.

All completely normal :)

mine is 2.8 and he can count to 20 backwards and forwards, can read them too, and the whole alphabet, he can also recognise and name a square, rectangle, triangle, circle, heart, star, and he knows all his colours. He's been doing most of this since 2 and I have wondered how normal this was :)

Totally normal. At DS's nursery they do lots of colours/numbers/shapes in the 1-2 room, but don't focus on it in the 2-3 room as most of them have got some sort of grasp of it.

Totally normal. Dd has excelled in things that DS didn't and vice versa. They are just all a bit different.

Sounds fairly normal. I'm sure we've all heard that boys and girls just mature at different rates, and no two children are the same anyway so these slight differences are totally normal.

I think they're just interested in different things at different times - and they don't always stay interested in things either.

DS knew all basic colours and the names / sounds of all letters (capitals and lower case) by 18 months, and by 2 years could name most shapes (pentagon, nonagon, cube), could recite numbers to 100 shortly afterwards.

Interestingly, he's forgotten some things e.g. the names of shapes we don't encounter so frequently.

Now he's 2.7 and obsessed by compound words and where the different meanings of words come from. When he was 18 months, I predicted he'd be reading by age 3, but now I'm less sure.

He's just interested in letters, numbers & language - as am I, which I suspect is why he's picked up so much of it. OTOH he can't jump with two feet or even remove his own socks, and isn't interested in lots of the things other children his age can do.