[mckenna]

my son's first word after mama was ball. my daughters first word was dog (we don't have a dog but that was her first word). my son started saying words for certain objects by the time he was 14 or 15 months. when his sister came to live with us and reached that age she would only say about 2-3 words (of course i made mistake #1000000 and started to worry about her lang. dev. since my son was saying a lot of words by that time) any way about a month ago (age 16months) she still only had about 6 words, then one night at the table my son said i want down and then i hear i want down, it was the baby. she went from 6 words to 3-4 word sentences over night. they just surprise you. her daycare teacher was laughing one day cuz the kids were all asleep and she and the other teacher were eating some cookies the baby woke up walked up behind her and said "i want some" she said all she could do was laugh because she did not know she was awake or could talk in sentences.