Whenever he's in the car Tyler becomes hypnotized and begins zoning out to fall asleep. When we're sticking around town for errands I try to keep him awake by asking him questions. Last week he surprised me when I asked what a pig said and he replied with a snort. I was expecting to hear an oink but he snorted. It was so funny. He did it again that night for Daddy. They must have taught him to snort at daycare. You could practically see the wheels turning in Tyler's head as he slowing concentrated on making the sound through his nose. So anyway, we had him snorting all night because it was so funny. But I guess we didn't practice enough because now when you ask him what a pig says, you can see him searching for the sound in his brain but he can't seem to reproduce it anymore. It will come back. But it is so fascinating to watch him try to find it. Shawn noticed he looks up when he's thinking, just like we do. They say toddlers regress before they get good at a new skill. So he's regressing on the snorting skill for now. Which actually makes a lot of sense because before swim lessons started last week, he was great at blowing bubbles in the water. His swim teacher even noticed how good at bubbles he was at the very first lesson. Now that we practice blowing bubbles every day, he's suddenly forgotten how to do it. Don't blowing bubbles and snorting both stem from the same nasal area? So maybe he's just going to blow us away with this awesome snorting/bubble blowing talent in the next few days.

He is getting good at repeating words we say. One of his books has simple sentences like "This is a cow.... Hello duck... How are you, bear?" in several different languages. I've been reading the Spanish version to him the past few days and suddenly he's saying "Vaca and Oso" that's cow and bear for you non-Spanish speakers. It's so strange to hear this little American speaking in Spanish. Last night Daddy and Mommy said Buenos Noches to him as we put him to bed. He gave us some weird looks. I wonder if he knows that's a different language?