Bringing the Noise!

Button has reached a new stage in her linguistic development--nearly non-stop noise production.

This is a stage that we're pretty unfamiliar with. Gabe has always been a noisy guy, but it was mostly activity-generated noise--knocking things over, yelling as he's running around the room, doing noisy things to get our attention, that sort of thing. As I've said before, he wasn't really interested in communicating anything but his extreme dislike for whatever he was doing at the time until he started to walk. Once he could get around and do whatever it was his brain deemed interesting, he wasn't interested in sharing his thoughts or feelings on the subject with us, either. So, he pretty much went from screaming and crying all the time to trying his hand at talking.

Button, on the other hand, is a talker--or she probably WILL be. For now, she's just a constant noise-making machine of nearly epic proportions. Finn--Gabe's preordained BFF--is like this too. He will start making noise, for no apparent reason sometimes, and he won't stop until he's found a good enough distraction or he runs out of steam. It's really quite impressive, and not a little annoying. It's like he's giving a speech to the masses, but there are no masses and he's usually not using any words that anyone other than he understands (on more than one occasion we've compared him to the Jodie Foster movie character Nel because it seems like he's invented his own language).

Last night, Libby and I sat down to watch the new Star Trek movie about forty-five minutes before Gabe went to bed. Gabe will let us watch our shows from time to time, but he doesn't like it, and he often makes his discontent known by doing everything he possible can at a loud volume, which he started to do. Then, out of nowhere, Button chimed in. She started bellowing and groaning--as you'll get a taste of in the video. Between the two of them, we couldn't hear a thing from the movie, so we had to stop the movie. Already they are conspiring against us doing anything that doesn't directly entertain them. Kids.

Sadly, we didn't get any video of them both working their mojo last night, but I got a little video of Button doing her thing, sort of, this morning. She was really going good until I got the camera in there, then the flashing light from the camera distracted her and she didn't really work up a full head of steam again while I had it running. But you get the idea.