Developmental milestones

Today we read all about the developmental milestones that you should be achieving at the different ages of your early childhood. Bear in mind the fact that you are not quite 16 months old. The results were staggering. When it came to listing your skills, you had all of the 12-18 months ones down. You have done for a while.

In fact, when we looked at the milestones for 18-24 months, you had nearly all of those, too (including having far surpassed a large number of them). It would be just plain showing off to list all the ways you are outdoing your milestones here. Child development, after all, is not a 'one size fits all' thing. However, with regards to your language, it really is worthy of note for the sake of us potentially misremembering your skills in the future. It says that, at 18-24 months (potentially up to 8 months ahead of where you currently are) you should have, "At least 20 words." So we thought we'd do a rough count of your words. Generally, you have been a pretty brilliant mimic for a while and, obviously, it would be wrong of us to use words that you can just parrot back to us so we only listed words that you would say entirely on your own.

That list was upwards of 70 words. Seventy!

This was without consulting Grandma and Grandad or the nursery, where we are sure you would have a number of other words. In fact, when we mentioned this to your Grandma, she asked us if 'blueberries' were on the list. This was right after you'd said 'elephant' when we showed you a picture of one. I think the true number would be closer to 100.

We are proud enough to make a song and dance about it on this blog.