This is a slightly odd situation. DH and I both speak English. LO attends a Spanish speaking daycare. (Its a long, not very exciting story.) She's coming up to her 12 month well baby visit and I'm trying to figure out where her language acquisition is at.

Her receptive language seems okay in English. She definitely looks around when we ask, "Where's Mum?" "Where's Dad?" or "Where's monkey?" (her wubbanub) and keeps looking around until she finds what Mum/Dad/monkey. She babbles a lot and puts together strings of different consonants and vowels. She's very socially engaged but doesn't copy sounds we make. I suspect the lack of copying is more to do with her personality but I'm keeping an eye on things.

We've noticed her making a few sound combinations pretty consistently and DH asked her teacher about them today. She says what sounds like "A-bwey" when she's reaching for something she wants us to give her. Her teacher said that's probably "Agua" and thinks she's copying the kids who want their sippy cups and is interpreting it as "I want..." instead of "water." The other consistent sound is, "Goy." Her teacher thought that was her copying "Voy" (I go.)

I'm not sure what I should be counting as a word at this stage. I'm not super worried about her language skills. She seems a little bit behind, which I assume isn't unexpected given that she's being raised bilingual. I'd just like to have an accurate picture of where she's at.

Anyway, I guess I'm wondering what to tell the pediatrician about her language acquisition. Do I count the sounds she's making consistently that her teacher thinks might be Spanish? Should I be at all worried?