Hippo Birdie Two Mooos

In honor of his thirteen-month birthday today, Olie added yet another animal sound to his growing repetoire: Moooo. But instead of blowing out the M sound to create "mooo," it's more like he's sucking it in. So it comes out "eMMM." But it's definitely in association with a cow. At this point when I read him his books, I don't even realize when I say, "What sounds does the .... makes?" So imagine my surprise when he followed "cow" with "eMMMMMMM." I repeated myself just to make sure. "eMMMMMM."

So to recap, Oliver's words are now: "light" (said for about 2 weeks and now only signs it), "milk" (signed), elephant noise, siren noise, "more" (signed), "meow," and "mooo." Are we noticing a pattern here? His buddy Bella actually says words like, "hi," "mama," "water," and "Elmo." But being a Scorpio I guess, Oliver feels that that just isn't creative enough.

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