Actual right response or sheer coincidence? :)

[MrsBigD]

DS, 21m, cracked me up this morning

We were watching Dora the Explorer and when they needed a particular flower out of 'Backpack' they pointed onto the wrong one first asking 'is this the big yellow flower' and ds went NO (in his cute caveman ugh way) then they pointed on the right flower and he uttered 'ya'.

So was that actually a correct response directly in relation to the question asked on the tv or just sheer coincidence???

The mind boggles... naturally he can't tell me as his vocabulary is still restricted to mama, daddy, very emphatic NO, and ya for yes, oh and not to forget 'uhoh' if anything goes wrong

Aaah, they're clever little things at that age -don't be fooled! They understand a lot more than they let on and store up all sorts of information to use at a later date (usually to embarrass you )

see the TV is teaching him stuff

DS2 is 20 months, and he can answer questions like "what noise does a train make?" reasonably accurately. They understand quite a bit at this age, even though they can't talk.

He's always surprising me, actually, probably because he's my 2nd kid, and I'm not paying any attention to him really. We were at a friends place, months and months ago, and I was saying to his brother, over and over, "to the front door! time to go home!", and the next thing I knew, DS2 scuttled off to the front door.

NQC... ds is my second too and I'm certain I used to pay dd much more attention at that age. Then again she was much more difficult and wouldn't entertain herself whereas he quite happily will sit for 1/2 hour and play with his trains/cars etc.

He most definitely understands stuff because when we say 'it's time for bed now' we get very distinct reactions
a) happily grabs milk bottle and trotts off to his bed
b) pouts then grabs milk bottle etc.
c) throws himself onto the floor and kicks legs violently accompanied by 'you're killing me' screams

DD (20mths) can tell a few colours apart - esp yellow and pink. Can say "Pink" and "Yellow" (well, I understand her) e.g. if picking a top to wear or picking out her socks. Whenever I ask her "Time for bed?" she says Noooo and shakes her head - lucky they're small and you can just scoop them up and dump them in the cot! She said her first sentence the other day - "me want milk" which we were all astounded at - I can't remember when DS did this, it is all too long ago!

florence uk small? scoop them up and put them into their cot??? You're lucky ds weighs 14.5kg (scooping up = weight lifting) and sleeps in a normal bed