I think Antoinette is right when she said different strokes for different blokes! while her method obviously works for her my method worked well for me, we got Russell when he was 3 months old and he was saying hello by 5 months. i have 6 people living in my house and i have a rule that we focus on one word at a time when we are trying to teach so doesn't get confused. we do have regualr conversations with him but if there is a specific word we want him to learn everyone is on board and once he masters it we move on and we only speak these words in context. now when i come in the door from work he is full of hellos, and when he is naughty and knows he's on his way to time out he says good boy Russell. last night i didn't realize that we as a family were wrapped up in something and weren;t paying attention to Russell and all of a sudden he was yelling "hello Russell" over and over and when we realized what he was saying and why we started talking to him. so you can play round with your own way or one of the members or combine some of them, i am confident Rosie will speak as she seems happy. I was the same way in being quite anxious to hear him speak and now it's all the time. good luck!
Yeah Russell was meowing like a kitten for awhile, it confused us because we don't have a cat, it was cute though, he still purrs.
Greys are known to start talking after 1 year old, anything before that is considered early.
