Doctor Ben Dolittle...?

Ben seems to have a "word" or "words", both in relation to the cats. When he sees the cats he yells "BA!", then he scurries over to them, and if he hasn't scared them away, he'll look at them and yell "Mehhhh! Mehhhh!" We think he's meowing at them. It completely cracks us up!

And so we've been trying to get Ben to say cat. This is how it's going:

Mommy: Ben, can you say "cat"?
Ben (enthusiastically): Ba!
Mommy: Can you say "cat"?
Ben (slightly annoyed): Baaa!
Mommy: Say "cat"?
Ben (thoroughly frustrated): Baaaaaa!

He looks at us as if to say "What do you think I'm saying??"

His level of comprehension is ever increasing. He now knows where his tongue is, and if you ask him he'll stick it out and touch it. Way too cute.