cirque du bebe

Monkey’s language skills have improved so greatly.  He’s using sentences now and today, I realized he’s learned a new language.  Body language.

It was really cute even though he didn’t mean for it to be.

He was playing with his pretend kitchen set.  Cooking up some rocks — real rocks people, not crack.  I was sitting behind him a few feet away just watching as he imitated what he thought “cooking” involved.  Suddenly, he wips around and looks at me with slightly squinted eyes and slightly pursed lips, “No touch.  HOT!”  And then continued fake cooking.  I couldn’t help but giggle a little.  So cute.

Then later this evening, we were wrapping up eating his REAL dinner.  He had climbed down from his chair and still had a banana in his hand.  Slowly he backed into our dining room where there is carpet — where he’s not supposed to have food — all the while looking at me.  As he stepped, he said something which took me a while to decipher.  At first, it sounded like, “ook a ee, I touch butt.”  Then I realized, he was QUOTING a line from Finding Nemo!  The part where the little fish named Sheldon says, “Ooo, look at me!  I’m going to touch the butt!”

Not only was his memory good enough to remember the line, but the motion associated with it.  Moving backward toward something he wasn’t supposed to touch!  The inflection in his voice was almost perfect, too!  AMAZING!