What does your 22 to 24m old do/ like (no boasters pls!)

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I don't have many friends with kids a very similar age to ds (22 months) as most of my mates' children are a bit older, and just wondered out of curiousity what yours do/ like doing etc. All the articles I've seen on development milestones all seem to say different things anyway so who knows.

No overly proud boasters please e.g. yours is already reading Shakespeare!! Just curious. And how much do you let them get away with?

My dd is 2 on Saturday. She loves walking, doesn't want to be in her pushchair at all really although she has to sometimes. She does ask to be carried 'mummy down' (says down for up and for down!)she does walk pretty slowly, stopping to look at things all the time (piders, bees, bu'flys) and loves walking on curbs, low walls etc. But will run around the garden/park and climbs the big slide (about 7ft) goes flying down on her back, then runs around to do it again! Can do forward rolls now too, and will swim unaided in her float suit or arm bands.
Chats non-stop, several hundred words and strings together short sentences, sings nursery rhymes and other songs. Loves to draw, look at books, watch telly, playdoh, sticking, painting, making music (well-noise!), cooking (stirring dried pasta in a sauce pan and licking cake bowls clean!) and watering plants and herself, digging up compost and collecting flowers and petals - what with her and the puppy I won't have a garden left soon.
She'll also strop, 'not like it' and refuse to do something, eat something etc.
Pretty normal little girl I think. At her toddler group they all seem to do different things, she's got a friend who love jigsaw puzzles and is very good at them, but dd doesn't do them as well, but I didn't do them with her much so that'll be why. she plays with cars but especially likes her animals, and stripping and redressing teddies and dolls!

oh, this all makes me so sad - my dd (22m) only has about ten words and those aren't clear . I feel like i am doing something wrong, she is going to have speech therapy but i just wish i could help her more. I am starting to notice the difference between her and other children at play group now and it breaks my heart, my DP says i'm neurotic but I could even see he was shocked when he came to playgroup with me this week.

sorry, that buggered that thread, its lovely to read about what the LO's are doing.

little B you have a puppy what do you have?

Aw Lucyellensmum, don't worry - it sounds like your dd is getting there, it's just they all do some things late and some things early. My dd was about 6 months later than her cousins at walking but she got there in the end, which is all that matters!
Now tell us the cute things she does that don't involve talking.

Lucy mine is 24 months on the 19th and he only says a couple of words. And definatelyly no sentences. I'm not bothered. He will talk soo enough. Enoy the peace. You will miss it when she won't stop talking. I wouldn't worry until she is still not talking at say 3.

Lucy - my ds really doesn't have that many more words than your dd so I do know what you mean - I saw a friend's daughter this morning who is just coming up for 2 and she was chattering away and ds said literally 1 word the whole time (about half an hour)

It is hard not to compare isn't it - even if we know we shouldn't.

Don't want to hijack the thread - but then again since I started it....maybe I can!

So what did the speech therapist or HV say? Maybe I should get ds checked - although he is starting to say a few more words now after not learning any new ones for ages so maybe will see what HV says at 2 year check

DD is now 3, but at 21 months I was still occasionally making a list of her words, which should tell you there weren't that many! 24, in fact. Two-word combinations were still a few months off at that age (first was 'no, daddy!' haha). A year and a bit on she rarely shuts up ... except when confronted by anyone she hasn't met about a million times before. I think that just as 'around one' is when physical differences seem very marked and worrying (DD wasn't bum-shuffling or crawling, let alone walking at an age when many of her contemporaries were walking), 'around two' is when verbal differences are very marked. The 'normal' range of vocabulary for a two-year-old is between 5 and 500 words, that's a HUGE difference. But for the vast majority of kids it's evened out by 3.

LucyEllensmum, they're right, all babies are different, don't worry. Soon you won't be able to get a word in yourself, and you'll hear about every single car that's coming on the motorway... though as she's a girl you might escape that one!

Boo, you asked about walking, DS likes to walk everywhere unless he's very tired. He'll walk to the park, go on the swings etc and walk back, and still leg it round the house...That could be up to three hours of walking. Mind you he does sit on the swing for aaaaaaaaages. He'll get in the pram if you persuade him, with bribery, but much prefers to walk. Very slow going round here, as he stops to point at every bus/car/taxi etc, look through every hole in the fence for a train... tis a wonder we get anywhere.

Hi KZ! LOl at your DS's drawings!!

OK, yes, this is about all the cute things. DD was a late walker, but now she can run she likes to paint and "do making". She loves the garden, thought she would be too young for seeds etc but i only have to mention the garden and there she is, making sowing actions and saying "ssssssssssss" She has to stop and stroke every cat we see and meows at them in varying tones, depending on whether the cat is a slinky malinky, scarface claw or grizzly macduff lookalikee if its the later i have to watch her, cos she takes that as a cue to give them a poke! see, grizzly mac DUFF!

See I'm dead jealous about the cats, Lucyellensmum, because mine is a total cowardy custard when it comes to cats - she practically leaps up into my arms and refuses to get down when she sees one .
She can't run yet and she doesn't have the concentration for painting (she did once or twice but has lost interest now).

So cute about the seeds - sounds like there are no problems with her understanding, anyway.

They all do different things at different rates don't they, they all get there in the end though, dd was a slow walker too. Sounds like your dd is doing well in the garden though, my dd just wants to dig things up, and she helps the puppy do this too, and they keep running all over the veg patch getting muddy and squashing plants! Never mind. the puppy is a 10 week old Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, a bit like a golden retriever but smaller and red. Hes great fun but hard work too. Off to the pets thread now to see if someones responded to my plea for advice with him!

what was your plea little B?