What age did your baby start using sentences?

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And I mean sentences such as:

There it is
There she is
See you soon
Moma spoon
Hiya car
Blue ball

Also what age did your baby start to recognise colours and count to 10?

Colours - not reliably at 18 months, more reliably at 2. He's still not perfect, he gets them confused sometimes at 26 months.

Counting - he was counting to 10 before lockdown, so before 17 months.

Sentances - just before 2. He went from single words to 4 word sentances practically overnight. He now jabbers away.

I'm interested to know why you want to know. All kids develop differently, if you're concerned about their development then talk to your health visitor.

DS was 2 when he dashed into the living room and exclaimed "where where shoes, gargle?" which obviously 😬 meant "where are my shoes, mother dearest? I'm going to play in the garden". To be honest, now he's 16 his sparing use of the English language is pretty similar 😊

One at 10-12 months

Your baby was speaking in sentences at 10 months? Yeah right.

4 maybe, she's autistic

Should add that she's competed in debating so (late speech) didn't affect her long term and she is at university

Mines 20 months and says "there he is" "whatya doin". All other words are single

Wow - these responses are much earlier than I thought!

My 17 month old is nowhere near sentences or counting. She can say a few single words but doesn't put any together and she can say 'two' but probably doesn't really know what it means. I thought she was doing really well until I read this thread

For DD1, at her 22 month check I remember her saying 18 words in a sentence, something like "Look mummy, dat an aeroplane in da sky like when we went in an aeroplane on holiday!!"
There was a tick box to confirm they could do 3 word sentences and the HV was like "right ok, that's a yes then" haha. She could do colours and counting to 20 by then too. She's now a totally average middle of the class 6year old.

DD3 is 27 months. Just started 3 word sentences. Definitely no colours (everything is "YELLOW!!") and can make vague sounds that resemble counting to ten, but she always skips number 4.

Counting at 18 months seems very early. Unless you mean just parroting the numbers back.

10 month old sentences... Yeah right!

OP approx 18 months for things like "now momma" or "no dada". Nearer 2 for "red ball" or "TV on now".

DD1 19 months
DD2 2.3
DS1 2.5 not yet.

There it is / she is isn't counted as a sentence though, it's usually used as a phrase, similar to all done or bye bye. The child doesn't necessarily realise it's several words. DS1 used to say "der-tiz" several months before he started combining, I remember asking if this was counted as a sentence at the time!

A sentence or combining words is more like what you described at the end so hiya car or mummy down or Red bus.

@Ihaveoflate

Wow - these responses are much earlier than I thought!

My 17 month old is nowhere near sentences or counting. She can say a few single words but doesn't put any together and she can say 'two' but probably doesn't really know what it means. I thought she was doing really well until I read this thread

As a rough rule of thumb, single words by 18 months and putting two words together by 2.5 is considered 'normal' - so no words at all by 18 months might be a concern but a few single words and some animal noises is totally normal.

DC1- 18 months
DC2- 4 years

DC 1, 14 months: started putting words together.
DC 2, 3 years: first words.

Big difference between the two. You'd never know it though now they're older.

Literally just intrigued. I have no worries at all - I just find it all very fun! Thank you all for your replies - just goes to show how they develop at all different rates but all end up the same!

@peasoup8
Yes, she was extremely advanced in that area. She took us all by surprise. She is now above average, but not in a way that anyone would be amazed or shocked by her ability.

She wasn't walking until 15 months, perhaps she just put all of her efforts into talking.

I'm not sure why you feel the need to suggest it isn't true though. Is a baby that speaks well at 10-12 months really so hard to imagine?

DS1 - 3 and a bit
DS2 - just over 2
DD - just over 2

Dd around 14 months, DS 2.5.

There he is, there she is, around 17 months

Although 14 months was more like "look car" "look dog" "look ball"
Around 17 months old was "there it is" "where's it gone?"

My DD could speak in 3 word sentences around 18 months. I seem to remember colour recognition was a few months earlier than that. Counting 1-10 about 3 years old.

Starting to think my DD was even more behind than I thought. She spoke her first words aroubd two, sentences around 3. I made a concentrated effirt to the her to count to ten the week before she started reception. (She understood what she easdoing and recognised the numbers written down at that point as we as learning to recite the numbers. She could group things by number way before then, by wouldn't be able to tell you the number).

Are these toddler maths geniuses reciting or counting? Im not sure what's normal.

About 2.5 for my son, my 22mo daughter is shaping up to be the same.

On the NCT website, they say that by 18 months children may use up to 20 single words. I'm sure there are some genuine early developers but the amount of parents saying their baby was speaking in sentences at this age or younger seems a bit disproportionate to me!

I'm not trying to put these parents down but there might be others with typically-developing toddlers worrying that something is 'wrong' when actually 12-18 month babies speaking in sentences is highly unusual!

DS is 21 months and in the last couple of weeks has started to use two words together eg bye bye mummy. My older DS was younger, around 20 months and then the sentences followed quickly.

It's so difficult to remember now.

I clearly recall dd1 being able to name all the colours in a book we took on holiday when she was I think 22 months, but I can't remember about sentences- or if the colour naming was a new skill on that holiday.

Dd2 did start joining words together pretty early - around 12 months. I know that because I have some video of her chatting away on her first birthday.

DN I remember much better, because I can remember the specific occasions we visited.
At 23 months just a few single words, by 2 years and 3 months joining lots of words together.