My son just turned two last month. He's been speaking a lot lately. My husband is French, so we're raising him bilingual. He's picking up both languages equally well. Of course, he often mixes them together and will say things like "drive the voiture" or "more fromage."

He also doesn't quite have sentence structure down, so he'll come out with "mommy car drive." I realize he's not letting me know that mommy's car can drive, but sometimes he means that he wants me to drive the car, and other times he wants to pretend that he can drive mommy's car. So I have to find out what he really means.

Then there's the overuse of the word "no," which he'll use even when he means "yes." And he's recently added "never" to his vocabulary to distinguish the "no" that means anything versus when he really means "no." Fortunately, I'm smart enough to realize he doesn't quite get the meaning of "no, never" when I ask him if he wants his diaper changed.

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