We realized in a sudden burst of insight that it was no coincidence that Jane's suddenly high-frequency utterance "noing" happened to co-occur awfully often with the sign for "more." Ohhh, noing! Why didn't you say so?
Please, sir, may I have some noing?
Since then she has added the ambiguous mayyyyybe-words "ha" (hat?), "ca" (cat?), "da" (dog?), and "duh" (duck?). She has no interest whatsoever in saying either "mama" or "papa," naturally. Too bourgeois. I think it's time to get her started on "schadenfreude."
While I'm boring you with this sort of thing, I may as well report on her other recent enthusiasms:
- Black licorice and poblano chiles. (Separately.) Foods babies naturally crave! I wish she would stay this way, but I realize that her developmentally scheduled toddler pickiness will probably arrive any day now.
- A game: she drums on the table until we join in, then pauses, hands suspended in the air, to make us stop. Repeat, with boundless delight, until dinner has gone cold.
- Getting up to speed as a self-taught minimalist composer on the pitch pipe. There was a brief false start when she put the wrong end in her mouth and hummed at it, but the ability to make noise is a powerful lure and soon enough she figured it out. The world is about due for a new master of the six-note plastic tuner, and Jane is ready to fill that role.
On the downside, she also went in for a three-day craze for sitting down in the middle of the floor and SCREAMING. Was it teething? No new teeth have yet appeared. Was it demons? Was it postminimalist artistic expression? Who knows!
While I'm boring you with this sort of thing
Even for someone's who's never met Jane, this developmental documentation/glimpse of her personality is NOT boring. Noing! Noing!
Posted by: Elsa | 05/29/2011 at 02:49 PM
I love your spin on baby development. It's not a tantrum, it's art!
Posted by: Elizabeth | 05/29/2011 at 04:35 PM
Ah, a budding musician. How...potentially professionally unfortunate. Investment banking is far more lucrative. The question is, how to determine if there is interest/aptitude at this point?
Posted by: uncle r | 05/29/2011 at 05:56 PM
Personally, I love them toes peeking out. And everything else in the picture.
Posted by: Yer Mum | 05/30/2011 at 03:28 PM
Clearly it was an extended performance of Tristan Tzara's ROAR, which is still in progress.
Posted by: David Auerbach | 05/31/2011 at 02:14 AM
Elsa and Elizabeth: you are both very kind. Oh, and actually I think it WAS (is, will be) teething (tantrum-art), as four (FOUR) new incipient tooth lumps have appeared simultaneously. This is going to be exciting.
R: That is an excellent question. So far we have limited ourselves to throwing pitch pipes and lots of music in her path. We should probably include some discounted cash flow valuations, just to keep her options open.
David: Charming delightful and delicious.
Posted by: redfox | 06/02/2011 at 01:14 PM
Oh dear heavens, I just overdosed on the cuteness! The cub is adorable!
Posted by: Di Kotimy | 06/03/2011 at 02:55 PM
Dammit you two, she is so CUTE! Why don't you live here in MD any more so I could bask in that cuteness?
Posted by: Amy | 06/09/2011 at 12:04 AM
She is adorable!
Posted by: Mom of Toddlers | 01/04/2012 at 12:33 AM
She is so cute. A parents happiness when they hear their baby start to talk,their first word.
Posted by: kamagra | 04/05/2012 at 09:13 AM