Good topic. What really is normal development for a 20 month old. Our DD did things that were clearly unusual.

I have a DS that is 20m now and has a very different set of skills from our DD. He crawled later around 8m and walked at 12m. He is still not really talking to the point where we can have a conversation with him at 20m.

He can count to 18 and knows his colors! He says two word phrases. His sis talks for him alot.

He did do some strange things as a baby like he would crawl up on his dresser and take out all the socks and put one sock in each drawer all over the house. Or he would do the same thing with wipes. He also used to take our pens apart and take all the springs. One day when he was around 15m I found a whole pile of pen springs in his room under the bed. My husband said he used to love springs when he was little too. I think our DD is probably gifted and I have heard siblings are usually close in that way.

Do you think this sounds gifted or just normal with a few quirks?