Overnight, or so it seems, John Patrick has vastly expanded his repertoire of animal sounds. Up until a week or so ago, when asked what sound a cow makes, he would reply "mmmmmmmm." Not "moo," mind you, but "mmmmmmmm." With some prompting from his nanny, Carley, he began to tell us that a cat says "mmmmaaaa." Not, "meow," but "mmmmaaaa." That was about it, though, as far as animal sounds go.
Then, one night when I was changing his diaper and getting him ready for bed, I started singing one my made up songs to him. I changed the lyrics and began asking him, for example, "what does a cow say," etc. To my surprise, not only did he have sounds for cow and monkey, but for snake ("heh"), mouse ("ee ee"), lion (a quick, deep throated growl that I can't begin to spell), monkey (high pitched, "aaaa aaaa"), horse (a giggle, with his mouth closed, that's sounds remarkably like a horse), elephant (a high pitched whine, starting low and finishing high), owl (almost indistinguishable from the monkey sound) and sheep ("baaaaaaa").
It's really, really amazing to watch John Patrick pick up knew things almost on a daily basis, right before our very eyes. We never get tired of hearing him make the animal sounds. It brings a smile to our eyes every time he does it.
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