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It’s been a week since I’ve seen my nephews (any of them). But at least I got to chat with one of them on the phone today. The youngest one. The one who’s nine and a half months old.
Aiden loves to talk on the phone. He might even know what he’s saying, but nobody else does. I’ve been told he says a couple of real English words (“bath” and “Mamaw,” for Grandma), but I’ve never heard him. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t communicate, though.
He has a wide variety of sounds that he likes to make. He growls and gurgles and squeaks and squawks. Put into sequence, his baby noises are very expressive. They sound like sentences, which I’m sure, to him, they are. You can tell by the look on his face that he’s thinking seriously about what he’s saying. That even comes across on the phone.
He’s aware of the rhythms of conversation, too. He talks, and then he waits for you to talk. Mostly he wants you to say his name, I think. | 
