My DD is 2 years 4 months, sounds very similar, loves counting, always misses out 15 but keeps going for ages otherwise, talks incessantly about everything and notices everything, is completely absorbed by learning new songs (won't let me hum now becuase she wants to know new lyrics to songs) and is now really trying to talk about feelings, work out relationships betewwn people, is obsessed with knowing if people, animals etc are male or female (new brother has made her adamantly anti-male and pro-female, apart from Daddy) all seems normal to me cos I see it daily, though she barely talks when we are at friends houses because I am usually talking to other parents and her peers don't talk, and slightly older kds patronise her. She is emotionally her own age, toddler tantrums when she doesn't get her own way or when I try to help her and she doesn't need it, but verbally and liguistically she is way ahead. Her bedtime thing now is to ask "What's the French for big orange cat...big blue cat...big yellow car?" etc. This is great cos we can now imagine what is going on in the minds of all her little pals - I am amazed they have such complex ideas about things, how things work, what dead things are, how music sounds. She heard some music today that had a bass guitar and two saxophones playing a jolly tune together, and she said "There's a big cat with some little girls dancing round him! They are having a party, they really are!" I guess she got to where she is by having parents that don't stop talking much,so much that when we are sitting together and I drift off into my thoughts she has a go at me and says "Mummy not say nothing".
By the way, I don't go on about her ability much, people used to comment but i didn't like drawign attention to it. I only mention it because that was the point of the discussion. it feels quite nice to tell people once i start though, so I had better stop. [Big head emoticon] I am sure she would get on well with your DD, aly16. XX