Milk Without Cookies

Sometimes it's a little unnerving to hear our 18 month old son build his vocabulary so quickly. Around Christmastime, when he was about 14 months old, it was like someone turned on a light switch and he started talking. Baby, bye-bye, hi, mama, dada, and a few other common ones were among the first. Pretty normal, I guess.

So lately, he has been repeating a lot of words. In the past few weeks he has learned cookie, Elmo, eyes, nose, mouth, and has mimicked other words here and there.

One day while he was watching A Bug's Life, he picked up on a scene in which the little bugs create a mural depicting the warrior (circus) bugs' defeat of the grasshoppers. They added a death, just for dramatic effect, yelling, "Die, die!" during their presentation of the painting.

So now, one of our son's favorite phrases is "Die, die!" which he repeats with the same cadence as the little bugs. Nice.