'Mummy toes dark' and other 2/3 word sentences

I came downstairs with black tights on a couple of days ago. Benjy looked at my feet, said ‘mummy, toes, dark’, then went to turn the light on. Came back, and looked at my toes with a confused expression on his face – looked back at the light, then back at my toes – couldn’t work out why my toes were still dark when he’d turned the light on! I took off my tights to show him my toes. The next time I can downstairs with black tights on, he simply said ‘tights off’ and started trying to take them off me!

In the last couple of weeks, as he has started putting two (and occasionally three) words together, he’s been amazing to watch. That little step forward in communication makes an enormous difference in what he can say. And he is coming out with more and more words all the time, things that I simply had no idea he knew. ‘Concepts’ are featuring now – ‘big spoon’, ‘feet cold’, ‘no shoes’ (pointing outside – because he can’t go outside with no shoes on), ‘no’ – (with one finger held up as if rebuking himself/me) – ‘knife sharp’.