23 months old and talking

William is such fun to play with and do things with these days. We’ve really been enjoying doing things as a family, like going to aquariums, swimming in the pool, even a weekly visit to the park to play on the slide and swings. I loved the chances we had in Australia to go to the beach a few times.


When we left for Australia, William was mostly saying made up words of his own – “too-tar” and "up-ar-la". I guess that at this stage, I was a little concerned that William wasn’t saying many words. Andrew said that the normal range of the number of words that a two year old can say is 5-2000. Well, at least William will be in the normal range, I thought, with the approx 10 words he can say (uh-oh, oh dear, raaa (the noise a lion makes), up, no, more, mama, dada, choo-choo (for train)). Since then though, he is getting much more interested in having a go at repeating words we say to him, and also succeeding in learning many new words. In Melbourne he learnt to say 'dog'. While I was in San Francisco, he learnt light, bubble, bye-bye and hello. New words I’ve noticed since I’ve been back include wheel, please, baa (the noise a sheep makes), wire, teddy and ball. He has even been trying to say colours after us - black, yellow, blue. Very well done William!