This topic is so funny to me. My DD is a major talker but I also think she is more intravert b/c forever when out in public she was close lipped and even today if someone she doesn't know talks to her directly she clams up. Is this an intravert? I really don't know but she is still shy around others. I too did play by play and refused to accept grunting for an answer. I was the nutty parent in the grocery store talking to the infant about everything around us.
There was one time we were in a craft store around the ribbon which she always had to have one or two to hold. This excited her and she started talking like she normally did at the house and I thought nothing of it but kept acknowledging her comments while looking at the ribbon. I really did not realize she was talking in sentences. A woman came around the corner to look at her and asked was she talking in sentences? Of course she was and had been for some time.(she was barely 11 months old) She was a mother of a 10 mth old and was freaking out that her child was barely saying mama and was there something wrong with her baby. I had to spend the next 20 minutes assuring her that there was absolutely nothing wrong with her child.
I always laugh at my husband when she is going on and on and proclaim: remember when we were soooo excited for her to talk? I really don't know if us constantly talking to her produced this result or if she was hardwired to be an early speaker no matter what we did, but we too deal with the constant chatter of our DD.
