Sounds

Babies can make the strangest noises. I remember when Addie was just a wee little lass, some of the sounds that she made would puzzle me. From her incessant grunting was a newborn to her not so femine noise, she never ceased to amaze me with something new.

Now, as she is getting older, it's fun to see that her sounds are starting to actually make sense. She currently is starting to imitate animals. For Christmas, Court and I, the ever anxious parents, bought her a monkey from Build-a-Bear. I can't even begin to imagine how we must have looked to the store employees and other customers as we ask our six-week-old baby which "animal" she likes best. But now, almost nine months later, the monkey is one of Addie's best friends. When she sees it, she starts to make monkey legitimate sounds.

We recently took her to the zoo -- one of her favorite places -- and when she saw the bears, she actually growled a few times. And just today as we were sitting on the front porch, a cat came up and started meowing. Addie, having never being that close to a cat before, started giggling and meowing a bit herself. Mind you that this is the first time, so it wasn't perfect, but still, she's nine months old.

Her other sound consists of a pig. She'll imitate the pig each time Court reads her a specific book with a pig.

I'm just hoping the the sound, "Dad, I'm getting married" never leaves her mouth.