Hot! Mommy's coffee is hot!

"Around nine months, children start purposefully imitating sounds they hear. During this period, receptive language-the ability to understand and comprehend-develops, followed by expressive language."
http://www.tinyfingers.com/articlehearingornot.html
Nate's also sort of saying "cat" or "gat" and a little bit of the universal baby sound "dat" and making "vroom vroom" noises with me with his little car, or so it seems. He also makes cute little determined sounds as he crawls toward trouble, but that's another post!