Well, I say he’s starting to talk, and I’m the mom, so what I say goes :).

I wrote this on a forum in January 2004 about Bradley starting to communicate. At the time he was 8 months old…

Bradley is trying to communicate - but wait - not with humans - he has started growling!

He started making growling sounds just before Xmas - we just thought it was a new sound and thought nothing of it. But while I was at home with him, I noticed he got very excited when he was near small dogs and ‘growled’ even louder. Then we thought he was trying to growl and bark like the dogs and laughed it off.

Yesterday my mom confirmed it. She was in Fourways at a book shop, and he started making the noise in his pushchair - she turned around to see what he was looking at - it was a few calendars with the pictures of dogs on the cover!!!
He is also trying to copy the horses. My mom takes him horse riding twice a week (my sister is still at school), and on Wednesday he started copying them!!

Connor never growled. LOL! But he is starting to communicate with us.
He calls me “Mmmmmmaaaaa”. He calls Lance (and most other people) “dadadadad”.
I’m sure he said “Mmmba” when he wanted to get to the bell today, and he says the same with a ball.
If he sees birds he goes “hmmmm” or “ho” and points to them.

OK, reading this now, it seems a bit silly, but I swear it sounds like talking!!

I wish I had this blog when Bradley was a baby actually, my only record of his milestones are on a forum and it’s very difficult to search for items there.

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