Confused by Toddler's Talk

[TruthSweet]

DD2 (2.4 y/o) keeps coming out with very confusing things and I'm getting puzzled by what she's burbling on about. Is it normal for a 2 y/o to say.....'Grown up pigeons are like my children, they ride in pushchairs' or 'Mummy is like my daddy in my farm' . DD1 made sense most of the time so I'm at a loss for what to say in reply and usually end up saying 'how nice darling'.

What do you say to random toddler waffle?

sounds normal i do a lot of oh yes, oh that is nice,oh lovely , is it , oh how sweet just answer and agree lol

My dd(21 mo)is calling by name a girl who is not with her all the time...at least I know this girl goes to the same childminder

My nearly 3 year old dd waffles on and on constantly and often makes no sense. Her favourite story starts 'there was a man, and I broke my leg and then I dreamed about jellyfish'...and so it goes on! I do just end up saying 'oh that's nice sweetie' whilst hoping that eventually she'll start to make some sense!

I think they are just putting everything together that they are overhearing - often out of context!

My Son, 3 frightened the life out of my by saying there was a Ghost upstairs
I thought maybe he has seeing something I wasn't It took me a little while before I made the connection to the ?Thomas? story we had read a few days before that had a Ghost in it. Phew!

Ha, 2.4 - DS is that age and has just started "sentences" - when it was one or two words, it made sense 90% of the time. Now it is hard to pick one word out of the sentence that I understand, the rest is lovely burble. Bless him, he repeats it until I get it - I have to repeat it back to him or he just keeps saying it over and over and over and over... sometimes it's clear to him I am way off the mark and he just gives me an "oh Mum" look and gives up but mostly he just goes on and on and on until I get it, or at least most of it.

It is a bit frustrating for both of us at times but I guess he just needs to practise talking, even if it is complete gobbledegook at this stage - I'm sure it'll make more sense soon.

Ds does this when he's telling stories (he is 3) and says things like 'today I went to the zoo and there was a castle and I smashed the jelly and saw the cheese on the farm' etc etc etc

Awwww I am so looking forward to sentences. We are in single word territory over here. It sounds adorable.

It's great tortoise - especially whwen accompanied by lots of gestures and great intonation, you just know it would be really interesting if you could only understand it!

Having re-read the OP and seen the question at the end, the answer is I say variously:
"that's interesting!"
"wow, really?"
"sorry lovely, I really don't understand"
or repeat the noises until he appears satisfied.

thumbwitch you are so lucky - ds will not stop saying soemthing until you repeat it word for word back to him which is sometimes very difficult!

ar, that's mostly what happens to me too, WFB - it's only if I'm a complete dead loss that DS gives up. A rarity, I can assure you - mostly he just goes on and on and on - the only advantage I might have is that it doesn't always matter if what I say makes any sense to anyone - so long as it matches what DS is saying, he is happy.