Sheepish about time management? Bah!

Babies are good at classifying things, so I've read, and can identify and relate different instances of things in the same class (picture of polar bear, cuddly toy polar bear, stuffed polar bear in Manchester Museum, etc.). Katy has evidently clocked the time-piece class of objects very well. The chiming clock in our dining room is a "bah" (=bong), but so is the ordinary clock in the front room, as is the clock-radio in our bedroom and the small digital alarm clock in her room. The other morning as we were driving to nursery she suddenly exclaimed "Bah!" in an excited manner, and as I looked round for an explanation I spotted a huge clock on the wall of a hospital.

Her vocabulary is expanding, although it does seem to be concentrated around variants of Bah! Here's the current list of 'words' at (nearly) 14 months:

1. baa baa = sheep
   
2. bah = bong, clock
3. bu bu = butterfly
4. bubba = baby
5. bye bye
   
6. cat
   
7. cheese
8. daddy
   
9. du = duck
10. [f]ish
11. Katy
    
12. ma = more
    
13. mmm = cow
    
14. mummy
15. sss = snake
    

Books continue to delight her, and she's started to join in now. One of her favourites is a simple, rhyming story about what babies can and can't do, e.g.
Babies can't say "sheep" ... but they can say baaa!