{"id":1306,"date":"2011-09-07T21:42:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T20:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2011-09-07T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T20:46:13","slug":"our-velociraptor-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/our-velociraptor-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Velociraptor Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n[I realise I’m muddying the appellative waters by referring to the Little Monkey as a dinosaur<\/a>, but normal simian service will be resumed after this post.] I seem to constantly be writing about how surprised I am by some aspect or other of our baby’s growth and development. This week it is the range of noises that Toby makes; at two weeks I commented<\/a> on sneezes and other ‘human’ noises, but he’s got a whole suite of squawks and cries now. He often does a very cute little sighing noise after sneezes (which typically come in pairs), which Mrs. Monkeyshines and I love. There’s an auditory ensemble of gurgles, some contented, other less so, but which sometimes start to sound a bit like a chuckle. And there are different types of crying that indicate distress or hunger or tiredness, or some combination thereof, which his mother is now getting very good at discriminating.\n<\/p>\n

\nBut sometimes he’ll make a bizarre, ethereal noise that you can’t quite believe has come from a baby; Mrs. Monkeyshines characterised one such noise perfectly, as the squawk of a velociraptor. Another time he woke me in the the middle of the night with a piercing owl’s hoot (he immediately fell asleep again, if indeed he ever woke up – it took me longer to drop off, feeling a strange mixture of spooked and amused). It’ll almost be a shame when he starts talking…\n<\/p>\n

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