Haha, no, that’s just him going “Oooooh!” 
Are you sure you didn’t have another typo in there? When I enter 人がいっぱいいる it parses the sentence correctly:
https://ichi.moe/cl/qr/?q=人がいっぱいいる&r=htr
The sentence just means “there are a lot of people” with the connotation that いっぱい doesn’t just mean “many” like 多い does, it really means a lot. Assume it’s pretty packed with people there, in Yotsuba’s eyes at least.

questions like these are better suited to the
I have to be very careful to look out for those little rendaku marks!