Just got back from DS's 2.5 year check and don't know what to think! I put on the form that he sometimes joins two words and doesn't do sentences yet. DS was in a mood when w got to the appointment and didn't say a single word all the time we were there!! She said they expect short sentences by now and a 300 word vocabulary. I flagged her up at that point and said hang on, lots of his friends don't do sentences yet! Then she backtracked and said that's totally normal at this age. She's ringing me in three months to see how he's doing. But she didn't take his receptive speech into account at all. He understood everything! And he's naturally wary of strangers so didn't like her trying to chat! The thing is, this boy can tell me that bees make honey and sheep need to be sheered. He can say shadow and point at his shadow. We're constantly reading and chatting with him. He starts preschool next week. Arggh!!