Rainy, that's awesome L! WTG - keep up the good sleeping so mummy can learn to sleep again too! LOL BTW saw your gorgeous boy with his fake parents in my letterbox yesterday .

Re the talking, at this age look for them starting to recognise words and don't worry too much about whether they're saying them yet, some kids don't get single, consistent words for another couple of months. They often change the word they are using several times before arriving at one that sticks. They also tend to use one word for several things, ie the word for dog is used for any and every animal LOL. I've got a list of words that they tend to recognise first so I'll post that if anyone is interested.