Are "daddy shoe off" and "mummy eating toast" 2 or 3 words ? (sounds silly)

[lingle]

sounds silly I know....

terribly exciting this morning. I sat down at breakfast and DS2 (3.2) said "mummy's toast". then "mummy eating toast".

Cue leaping in the air, general high fives, (he only connected two words on 5 Sept. I know because I posted about that too. sorry everyone. you must all feel as if you live in my house).

He's definitely connecting two words now.

I'm thinking that "daddy shoe-off" is really two words because I'm not convinced he's really cracked the difference between shoe-on and shoe-off.

But mummy eating toast? Wow, that was like Shakespeare! An early 3-word combo, dare I say?

I need to feel good about progress because at nursery he does nothing but echolalia, apparently. except once he said "no".

definately!
Mine started 2-words much the same time and has just exploded in the last month. He is a little bit younger (2.9y).
It is sooo lovely when it comes isn't it.

Definitely 3 words!

Aww this is lovely
oh and yes... definitely 3 words!

A piece of DS1's fish fell off his plate last night and he said

' fish fell down'

nice one Cyber-DS1!

Sounds like 3 words to me.

definately 3 key words - keep that feeling!! Repeat 3 word sentences back to him all the time. Don't worry too much about nursery....it always comes later than at home

thank you. His verbal imitation is great but his understanding is very delayed. But at least now I'm confident that he can understand many 2-word combos .... no wonder he is so much happier. Today he spontaneously said "no cars" when looking for cars out of the window. Just to give hope to someone else out there, I must have said "no+object" to him at least 1000 times in the last year! but now he's really got it.

We are getting far fewer words and phrases used out of context as his vocabulary improves.

Gosh, he's calling "mummy" (as opposed to daddy).

hi lingle, that's definitely definitely 3 words. That's wonderful! Going to try the "no .." thing myself, need some new tricks to try.

Up your way at the moment, got family up here so come up once or twice a year. Was thinking we should maybe try to do a Yorkshire coffee meet up some time next year!

which bit of Yorkshire do you visit?

agree on them being happier - though even when non-verbal they are pretty adapt at communicating their wishes.

Awww
I can feel your excitement great stuff

Not only are they 3 separate words, he's making small sentences. Hats off to him and right on target of 3yrs
Try repeating back and adding an extra word ie: 'mummy put shoe on" or "mummy likes eating toast". I did this with my 2 ds and they soon pick up on it.