Moo, baa, la la la!

This has become my favorite book. It's by the irrepressible children's author Sandra Boynton. There are pictures of animals with accompanying noises, and every night I'll point to a picture of a cow and say, moo!

"Moo!," says Rachel after taking the pacifier out of her mouth. She sits on my lap, with Spot in one hand and ducky in the other.

"Baa!" I say, pointing to a picture of a sheep.

"Ba!" she says.

"La la la!" I say, pointing to a picture of three little pigs.

"lalalalalalalala," she says.

She can't quite manage "quack" or "neigh" yet. But she tries. Her "meow," comes out more as a babylike squeak: "aagghhh!"

We end, of course, with a cuddle.