A few weeks ago I was out of town and Lim was giving Guppy a bath. He has two boats, one with a hook on it, and one with a place to put a hook. She took the hook from the first, hooked it onto the second, and made some "vroom" noises. From then on Guppy will grab the boats, hook them together, and make a fairly high-pitched sound while pulling them around in circles. Of course, those sounds sound nothing like a "vroom" sound, but that's not very surprising since he can't talk yet. It is incredibly cute though.
He is also an expert at making a buzzing noise with his lips. As a trombone player, I very much encourage this. How did he learn that? I was trying to make him figure out how to blow bubbles in the bathtub. He couldn't figure out what I was doing to make them because blowing air out of my mouth doesn't really make a noise. Best solution is of course to make a buzzing noise. After about 3 days of demonstration, he got it! He's going to be an absolute pro come swim "lessons" this summer.
When it comes to lip buzzing, the next logical step was for me to play the trombone for him. This is the third time in his short life that I've played the trombone for him. The first time (at about 5 months), he was scared and cried. The second time at about a year, he smiled and crawled away happily. This time? He loved it! Not only that, he wanted to put his mouth where my mouth goes, which he made clear by putting his hand out towards it and making a pincer motion (it's amazing what can be communicated with that motion).
I would make a buzzing noise with my lips and then bring the trombone up and play something. He would look at the mouthpiece in the horn and make a buzzing noise with his lips. So I took out the mouthpiece and showed him a couple more times how I buzzed my lips and held it up to my mouth to make a sound. He kept making his pincer motion, so I started to bring the mouthpiece to his lips, part of me hoping very much that he would make a good noise on his first try and be a trombonist like his papa. It got within an inch of his mouth as he was buzzing his lips and just as he was about to buzz into it... he stuck out his tongue and licked the mouthpiece. So I guess we're still working on that... Damn.
