Lil' Monkey has somehow, somewhere learned how to be VERY vocal in the past two weeks and not while using words. This seems to happen mostly in the car. A nice confined area where the boisterous nature of his vocalizations can reverberate. Sometimes he does it when he's upset, but mostly I think he's doing it as a learning process of what his voice can do. That or out of boredom.
Sometimes he'll give me a "warning scream". It's a breathy little noise, almost like he's about to lose his voice. "ah." Then the onslaught comes, "AHHH! AHHHHH! AAAAAAAAH!"
The squealing just comes out of the blue. "AAAIIEEEEEE!" His daycare provider says he kinda sounds like a little girl. At first I was a little offended by this comment, but it's true, he kinda does.
The screeching I'm finding hard to handle. It makes your heart stop and not in a good way. "EEEEEEEEE!" The shrill nature of it makes me tense up everytime he does it.
For the screaming and the squealing, I'll sometimes join in and imitate him. We then have a vocal tennis match, volleying our primordial noises back and forth in the car.
I've been reading The Happiest Toddler on the Block and the premise of that book is that toddlers are really just little Neanderthals trying to fit in millions of years of evolution into 3 years of growth. It makes a lot of sense and I while I haven't yet looked up what Dr. Karp has to say about this new "skill" my lil' Monkey has developed, I'm sure he'll somehow relate it to our caveman ancestry.
So here's to you my little Neanderthal, my lil' Monkey, "AAAAAAAHHH!"
Monday, July 21, 2008
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I love it!! To you and me it is screaming but the Monkey he is communicating with you. And I love the volleying back and forth in the car....by hearing your voice it encourages him to talk too. And trust me it gets louder too. Keira loves to get right beside the cat and let one rip and I swear she knows it drives the cat crazy. She is so loud I have actually heard a kid at the playground say.."Mommy she hurts my ears" Now that was embarrassing.
My only suggestion (and I am learning too) is as Monkey gets older not now but later when his screams start to sound like real words actually start speaking to him in sentences. I do this with Keira and half the time I feel like an idiot talking to myself, but in the long run I think it will help build communication skills.
constance -- I was ROLLIN' reading your comment! I love that she made another kid say that. That's awesome, even if it's a little embarrassing.
We do the same thing, vocalizing back and forth with each other. Often it's over dinner. Although Hubby does not play along. Apparently the yelling bothers some people. I don't get it. ;-)
Sasha did the shreiking for a while...we called it "happy screams".
It was a long phase.
Now that his language has progressed its mostly gone away. He'd rather tell us something is "good", or not and just tell us what's on his mind.
We don't always understand it, but after he's repeated it about 30 times we sometimes figure it out.
usually when aria is tired and in the car, she'll start doing this groaning thing. we like to volley some of those back at her. she gets a kick out of it.
so... he sounds like a little girl, and loves flowers... j/k!
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