Phil,

You should try and do those high pitched lovings and see if he does it.
lol. Just say "loving" really high! It's fun! lol. I often do the high
pitched squeeze and start really high and go down the scale. lol. I'd love
to hear him do that. lol.

Love and Blessings,
Pat Ferguson who is silly lol

At 08:45 AM 2/18/04 -0700, you wrote:
>Chester is now almost 11 months old and although he still doesn't really say
>words, he is learning to imitate various sounds including whistling certain
>ways.  Lately, however, with colds and all, he has begun to imitate the
>blowing of the nose and coughing.  He thinks it is pretty funny, too.  He
>also imitates the high pitched beeping of my radio shack watch.  It does a
>double beep and I made it beep one day checking something and he immediately
>mimicked it.  He does that all the time now.  He has almost gotten the
>electronic ringing of the telephone down, too.  I say thank you to him all
>the time and he mimics the sound of the words and once and awhile, it sounds
>like he is saying the words to me.  You are supposed to squirt him down once
>a week, at least, for a bath but he does not like the mist squirt bottle we
>have at all.  So we bought a perch that you can put in the shower.  He sits
>up on the thing a couple of times a week now and since it is up higher, he
>gets all that steam and he's happy once he gets out and back into his cage
>and sings and makes all sorts of sounds.  Of course, he isn't in the spray
>of the shower so he is just getting the steam.
>
>Phil.