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I think she was saying "hi" from a pretty early age because I'd always say it to her in the mornings. But her first real word was "duck" when we were out for a walk around a duck pond.

Book and apple around 11 months.

Hi! Around nine months. Followed quickly by dada and slowly by mama.

Ball, not till 13.5 months. She'd say mama and dada before that, but not like she was calling for us or anything. Now, at 17 months, the words are coming fast!

ETA: she signed well before this and waved as well. I think she's just a quiet kid, which makes sense because both DH and I are quiet people.

Yummy! Kid loves to eat.

I have high standards for this one....we thought she might be saying things....but then at 10 months we realized whenever she wanted food she would say "mah" (like more). We tested it out, and gave her a small bit of something, and she'd say it. Then again. And she didn't say it in any other context.
Right around this time she said dada, too, specifically for my husband (although with that she does still use "da da" as an exclamation, and seemed to go through a period where all adults were "da da").
With dada she would say it when he walked in the door, and when we saw pictures of him. And she had it as a receptive word, so I could ask where he was and she'd look for him.

I feel like, when it was actually a word it became really obvious, some people don't have such high standards, though. A woman in a playgroup I go to claimed her 6 month old was saying the dogs name because he kept saying baba. He also called everything else baba. So personally, I wouldn't count that. Some people might!

Dada, followed by mama within days.

'Uh oh' probably around... 11 months? 12 months? None too early. Then 'Book' was another month behind that one, and another month for 'Mama'

"Ah-da!" for all done at 8.5 months.