How may words does your 18 month old have?

[loeylo]

Interesting experience at a soft play centre today. My 19 month old was playing with a 20 month old. The 20 month old had WAY more speech. He was happily putting 3 or 4 words together like 'it go down there' and 'he gone there'...Then I noticed his motor skills. He couldn't climb the structures like Zach could and he was wobbly on his feet still! So there was one little boy sounding grown up but limited physically and one racing around heaving himself up all the slides and jumping in the balls but still babbling away...

It was lovely to see these two versions of 'normal' together, at play!

Gracie goes through stages. As a newborn and a young baby, everyone commented on how physically advanced she was (holding her head upright, ducking her fingers, putting her own dummy back) yet she was on the later side for a social smile, cooing etc, and then she didn't crawl or pull up until she was 9 months, so on the later side of normal, and didn't walk til 14 months, but is now quite good with social and emotional communication for her age (particularly emotional actually) - so she has literally reversed in her skills.
Gracies skills definitely come on in leaps and bounds then stop for a while. Her current favourite is holding her doll and asking everyone to "shh!" (as in, the entire shopping centre.