My daughter was 2 last month and she seems very advanced. I find it very difficult. A lot of people have said to me, "She's just like a little old lady!"
She has spoken in sentences since she was 18 months. She never had a problem with grammar - she just started getting everything right first time. She is now EXTREMELY articulate. With this verbal advancement comes a lot of internal/thought development as well. She often comes out with very 'deep' thoughts, and picks up on people being slightly down, and will say things like, "What are you thinking Matthew?" if someone is SLIGHTLY under par. She also asks me a lot of complicated theological questions about church, which REALLY floors me.
Her nursery carers say she is lovely company and helps them out all the time, leading 'classes' etc. and say she is just incomparable to the others her age. She seems 'on a par' with articulate 6-7 year olds, although to be honest I don't find many of them!
She isn't advanced in any other ways apart from verbal/social skills - although she has been completely potty trained for a few months. She is podgy and just under the centile chart for height, which adds to the pecularity (is that a word?!) of the situation - she is like a 'little old lady trapped in the body of a baby!' as several people have said.
I think the old-lady references come from the fact that she seems to speak a strange kind of 1950's schoolboy english - lots of 'goody!' and 'hurrah!' and 'thank you very much Mrs Smith!"
Anyway, I'm rambling. She is great company, but I do worry about her. She also seems 'sad' a lot of the time, although I think she is mostly thinking a lot. There is a history of mental illness in our family and I worry that her 'deep' nature might half a darker flip-side. I was also 'very bright' but ill with mental problems during my teenage years - I often find myself singing that Pulp song "You look like me, please don't turn out like me..."
God this turned all morose...!