Monday, December 6, 2010

WHAT DOES A DUCK SAY?....BBBAAAHHHH

The other night after dinner we were all sitting around the table enjoying some conversation.  Aunt Lia was here, and so we lingered a little longer than normal before clearing the dishes.  Levi sits at the head of the table in his high chair and at 16 months is really coming into his own in the personality department.  For example, he loves to show off his new skills…which at the moment are: 1) pointing to body parts with a very cute tap, tap, tapping motion and, 2) saying animal sounds when asked what a "fill in the animal blank" says.  He is doing pretty well.  For 90 percent of the animal sounds he makes, he uses a very high pitched and soft voice.  So a dog (whoo, whoo) sounds a little like an owl, and a monkey (who-who-who-ha-ha) is actually super cute and pleasant to listen to.  There is one animal sound that he makes with 100 percent consistency and with great gusto in a very raspy and authoritative voice.  A duck.  However, when asked what a duck says, his answer is never quack, and it is ALWAYS a very loud and hoarse: BBAAAAHHHH.  We have no idea where he got it from, but from how determined he is to say it every time asked, I'm not so sure he won't always think that a duck sounds like a sheep with a smoking habit.  He had us all reeling with laughter, which of course most likely reinforced the wrong answer, but hey…it's just one more benefit to being the baby, no one is ever in too big of a rush to "grow him up".