100 and counting

We were having a stroll last night with our yuppie-mobile (the chariot) and were enjoying Matthew and his stream on conversation about cars, the various colours of cars, the ownership of said cars etc. That got us to thinking: just how many words does he know anyway? I said that it must be a hundred and Kristine said it was closer to 50. So we started to count. It was pretty fast at first, but then it slowed down around 40, but we steadily climbed past the 50 mark, past 70 and on to 80. We were both pretty amazed at 80, but the words kept coming. We aren't sure if he knew what we were doing, but Matthew started to chime in with obscure words that he doesn't use often, but certainly knows. By the time we got home we were at a solid 96. We executed the bedtime protocol and as I was brushing his teeth I got the last four to push us to 100. Wow. And sure enough, the next day we added more. I think we are at 107 now and still counting. Pretty incredible. Apparently 20 words by 18 months is pretty normal and 50 by 2 years, so clearly language is not going to be an issue for Matthew, or to be clear the lack of language won't be the issue. He is starting to put things together too. He has quite a few 3 word phrases and is getting up into 4 words as well. Of course all this is great except as I write this the little turkey is chatting away in his crib, as he has been doing for the last hour of his "nap".