When he sees a snake, he will hiss out a "ssssss."
For a giraffe, he brings his hand up to "nibble" on his hair. I depict a giraffe by stretching my arm straight up in the air with my hand turned as a face. Ever so slowly, I'll bring it down and pretend that it's eating my hair, like a real giraffe pulling leaves off a tree. So, now Troy does the same thing.
My wife got him a new book that has pictures of birds in it. There's a pigeon on one page, and when he sees it, he now coos. It's a very realistic sounding pigeon.
In that same book, there is a woodpecker. When he got to this picture, he looked up at me expectantly, and I froze. Reminiscent of the fish long ago, I had no idea what sound a woodpecker makes. So, in a moment of genius, I reached over and started knocking on the table. Troy immediately loved this gesture and mimicked my motion. Now, if you even say woodpecker to him, he'll start knocking on something.
The cow gets a very loud, deep, gravely, "maaahhh" sound. It's not bad as far as cows go. Probably spot on for a calf actually.
The sheep gets a simple "baaa" before quickly moving on.
The lobster and crab gets him making a claw with him hand and opening and closing his fingers like pincers.
He can identify his footwear as a "shoooo." It's cute, because he struggles a bit with the "sh" sound, so it comes out almost like "swhoooo."
He can also point to eyes, ears, noses, and mouths and correctly name them.
And whenever he picks up one of our phones now, he'll lift it to his ear and say, "Hilo."
No comments:
Post a Comment