Update: Jack

Posted by Mandy on October 31st, 2007 filed in Uncategorized

Ben and I spend a great deal of time with Jack teaching him to communicate in appropriate ways.  The first few months, we taught him to stick his tongue out, which became his primary form of communication for a good 4 weeks and cause many people to wonder at his talent.

Recently, though, Jack has developed a startling, gurgly sort of loud “arrrrrgggh”.  I have been trying to decipher what this means.  Hunger? Boredom?  Frustration?  He tends to do it when he’s engaged with some kind of toy.  Last night, though, it came to me.  He’s learned the next form of communication from us!  The “rawr” noise we make to him while we tickle him, make faces at him, and otherwise act like we’re going to eat him up has been translated into this weird grunting screaming thing.  I’ll have to see if I can get some video of it.  It startles the hell of you when you first hear it.