Mads has been doing more and more imitating recently. It’s funny how normally someone imitating you is a bad thing, and yet with a baby it’s something you want to encourage! His most recent “act” is mimicking talking on the phone, though of course he doesn’t mind replacing the phone with whatever object happens to be nearby. Last night it was a whole can of puff snacks. He’d pick it up and say “Daaaaaaaaaaa!” I was just waiting for him to say “Daaaaaaaaaaa, can I stay out another hour?”
He’s also very prone to imitating sounds he hears on television. For example, he makes an incredibly convincing bird of prey sound. Then the other night he did a great imitation of Barney, from the show How I Met Your Mother, laughing it up.
He isn’t just imitating sounds either. At daycare, one of the other children makes a habit out of opening the toy box, taking out a block, and then closing it again. Our daycare provider told us yesterday that even though that child wasn’t there, Maddox spent the whole day opening the toy box, taking a block out, closing it, placing the block on the table, and then repeating.
Mads also is happy to “help” Leanne with laundry, whereby he will take each piece of clean laundry out of the basket, one by one, carefully placing it on the floor. Sadly he has yet to grasp the concept of folding.
Luckily, he hasn’t started imitating any of our bad habits yet. Not like we walk around cursing or anything, but I’m certainly known to yell at the cats occasionally, and I just know that some day I’m going to hear Maddox start doing the same thing.
