"It's a bird! It's an...another bird!"

Connor's developing vocabulary tends to go from one favored word to another, one at a time. Now the in word is "bird," which comes out more like "brrrr". The kid loves birds and uses it all the time. He is really into going for walks because he can do lots of "brrrr". He sees planes, and these are "brrrr", too. He's also learned to take a kind of quantum approach to the thing, pointing to general areas in which there might be birds and saying "brrrr". If one is holding him by a window, for instance, there may be birds, and one walks away from the window only at risk to one's eardrums for he will not be happy. He even likes to point at the tree that Nonni and I painted on the wall and say, speculatively, "brrrr."

One final cute bird detail is that we have a little lullabye toy is his crib that plays a song and has little birds that fly around a nest. We put him down to sleep and come in later to see him fallen asleep with the birds going, positioned so he can look right at them. Very cute.