Taurean, glad the MS is ending for you. Don't worry about the mummy brag - I did it all the time with DS lol. A is just a lot slower. I have to remind myself that just because she is not super fast it doesn't mean she is backwards iykwim. The vocab explosion is amazing isn't it! DS went from about a dozen words to hundreds and sentences within about 6 weeks. A is just starting to add a word every couple of days now so I am hoping she will be on her way by September.

Sounds like a good idea to get the doll at Xmas time. We have so many toys here already that we have decided to pick a good quality thing and build a collection rather than bits and pieces of everything. So A is going to be getting Scleich animal figurines - she loves to play with them at kindy. DS will get some sort of construction set.