Background information for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about...
Drew loves animals (which is great since that's what his room is decorated in and one of his mommy's favorite things too) and we've been working on identifying some of the more common ones. There's a book that he likes to look at that has pictures of zoo animals. His favorites are the giraffe and the elephant.
Giraffe Back Story: One of the pictures of the giraffe in the book is a giraffe sticking it's long tongue out to get some leaves. Russell and Drew were looking at the book together one evening and Russell pointed it out to Drew. Now, knowing how much Drew loves to play with his tongue he started imitating it. Russell didn't really think anything of it until the next day when I was looking at the book with Drew and when we turned to that page he immediately stuck his tongue out and pointed to the pictures. So, now whenever we talk about giraffes, or ask what a giraffe does (since they don't really make much noise) he will stick out his tongue.
Elephant Back Story: When Papaw Dave (Russell's dad) was here a few weeks ago they were looking at the book and Dave decided to teach him what sound an elephant makes. He would raise up his arm and make a "trumpeting" sound each time they got to the page about the elephants. A day or two later we noticed that every time Drew got to that page, or saw his elephants in his room he would raise up his arm and start to make a funny sound. He's not as consistent with that one, but he definitely knows.
The moral of the story: You never know what he's going to learn next - so watch what you're doing and saying!!
Giraffe Video:
Elephant Video (the sound he makes is really hard to hear on the video because of where the microphone on the camera is and the volume of the sound - it's kind of like a grunt/growl that he makes in the back of his throat - but you can see him raise up his arm - and you can tell that he's a little embarrassed):
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What a smart kid you've got!
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