Is my 2 year old verbally gifted?
My daughter is 28 months old. She had a vocabulary of over 200 words by 18 months and was speaking in 10+ word sentences before 2 years. She knows concepts such as; before and after, first, tomorrow, sharing and many others that we, and those she meets constantly find astounding. She has sympathy for peers and will let me know if her baby sister is crying because "Mommy, Madison feels sad. I'll help her feel better." or, "You have an ouchie? You need to get a bandaid?" She can count to 8 but tends to skip 5 and loves to count her way up the stairs. She knows many colors including, red, green, blue, purple, orange, pink, yellow, brown, black, and peach and can differentiate between light and dark colors. She knows a few spanish words from watching Dora and understands that they have different names in English. For example she asked me for a "roho" crayon the other day and when I didn't understand her she said "It's red." She knows hundreds of different animal names and amazed her aunt by describing a flamingo to her that she saw in a picture. She knows most of her basic shapes including a circle, oval, square, star, moon, and octagon. She tends to confuse a hexagon for an octagon. She can follow complicated multi-part instructions without needing it repeated such as "Put your potty seat back and flush the toilet then we are going to brush your teeth." She understands processes and what order things need to be done " First I have to get my shoes, then I can go to grandma's house." She is constantly asking why. "Mommy, why I have to wear my seatbelt?"
My question is, do I have a gifted child or she just just a little more advanced than the children around her that are her age?