Charles is now using sentences on a regular basis, even though he has a vocabulary of no more than 25 words or so. He asked me today “what does that do?” about some Legos. Although he generally says “peas” as a general “do what I want right now he has started saying “peas hep” [please help] when he needs help as opposed to service (such as opening a door). This evening he asked Mom “What’s that thing?” about a picture in a book.
However, Charles still does not say “mom” or “dad” or any variant of them. Mom claimed that Charles was using “Dah-ee” for Daddy but that was only a couple of times one day and he didn’t use it subsequently. Alledgedly one of those two words is one of the first words a child learns, but not our Charles. He can say “truck” and “car” and name several colors (“blue”, “green” and “black”) but “mama” and “dada” is still not in his repetoire.