Speech - 25 months old

[Treenas]

Hi,
My little one can say the following words
Daddy/dada
Dog
Cat
The cats name
On there
Door
Juice
Nose
Eyes
Teeth
Narna (banana)
No (of course! Haha)
Up
Oh dear
Shoes
Ready steady go
Ten
Ball (nall)
We go through learning cards with him and he can identify 1-10 when asked where’s 1 where’s 2? Etc, same with words, where’s bed? Where’s elephant? And he can do this with loads! We read quite a bit too and he gets fully engrossed in the book, let’s me read it and we point to different things in the page. So what I take from this is he fully understands what I’m saying to him 99% Of the time but he just isn’t speaking much.

I haven’t heard about his 2 year review yet and plan to call them myself this week but I wondered if anyone else has experienced this?
He does still have a bottle at bed time but that’s it, not throughout the day at all, we are working on reducing the amount of milk in his nightly bottle and he already is able to have half a bottle and go bed awake and fall asleep. The only reason I’m mentioning this is because I’ve read a bottle can stop them talking. He doesn’t have a dummy.
Any mamas out there who have had a similar experience?

Sorry he can also say, hiya and bye bye

Just two? Sounds fine to me.

I’m just going off the NHS website saying he should be saying loads more (think it’s said 50 plus) for his age. Hence me worrying. Glad to hear it sounds normal to you though! Thank you x

My DS is an identical age to yours. With a similar amount of words. My daughter said hundreds of words at the same age.
I’m not concerned, boys are often later to talk and he’s got an older sibling doing the talking for him. He understands a lot more than the amount of speech he has!

I would say really no need to worry.

My DS is 2 next week and says less words than that, and the words he does say are very unclear.

His understanding is good and he can follow instructions so I assume speech will develop later.

Thanks everyone, he took a while to get walking too (compared to similar aged kids we know) but he’s absolutely fine with all that now so I’m hoping speech is the same, just a little slower to start. I know I sound like a worry wart but is hard not too sometimes, comparing is a useless thing to do aswell but a lot of my friends had children around the same time so even if I try not to compare it’s literally my face haha xxx

In exactly the same position- in every other way well ahead but his speech is shocking so we starting counting his words on Saturday. Speech only
Really recognisable by close relatives.