Pig: 22 months

Pig is a myna bird. She repeats everything we say. The other day we were in the car and I mentioned that the driver in front of me was getting on my last nerve. In fact my last nerve was more like "MY LAST NERVE!" with a fist raised for emphasis. I look in the rear view mirror to see Pig raise her little fist and say "LAST NERVE!" or at least something that sounded a lot like it. She also had me ROFL when she imitated the little Windows melody as my laptop was booting up.

The language explosion is just phenomenal. Her favorite phrase these days is "Say Cheese!" whenever we have our camera out. She gets frustrated often when we have trouble understanding her or when she thinks we're having trouble. Last week around dinner time, K was playing with Moo and I was puttering about the kitchen putting dinner together and Pig started saying "ju', ju'" (translation: juice). I told her ok but that I had to finish cooking the chicken. She asked a few more times and then when I looked over, I found her leaning over a bottle of juice that was on the ground (one of those two-packs from Costco) and she pointed most emphatically at it and shouted "ju'! ju'!" Yep, I got the picture.

Pictured above is one of Pig's creations, Wood Blocks #6.