At two years and 4 months old, Anya is conversational in her speech.  It was just within the last 6 months that Kailan became conversational, so she’s about 8 months to a year ahead of her brother in speaking.

Why?

Well, partly is that she has an older sibling.  She would listen to his toddler speak, which is the building blocks of their vocabulary and copied it.  She also is in daycare with a lot of other little kids, some of which are older so they speak better, and she copied them.

She is a little parrot.

When she started to talk we were amazed at how quickly she would pick up words.  She would hear you say an interesting word and then say it.  She still does.  She knows her alphabet via the song, can count to around 14 and regularly speaks in full sentences.  So basically, you need to watch what you say around her.

Example: Last Saturday night, after yet another windy, rainy storm we came home.  Unfortunately I had forgotten to close the glass doors in our three season porch and it was drenched.  Brian said, “holy cow” and I said “crap”, which morphed into a sweet little high-pitched voice saying, “holy crap! holy crap! holy crap!”.

Yeah, momma needs to watch her tongue. 😉