What a feeling!

Here's a video where I torture William by trying to make him do all his tricks at once. It starts out with a few good tricks, and then he stops doing what I ask and instead babbles and attacks the computer.

I couldn't be more proud of all that William is learning every day. My mom pointed out today that I'm not going to know what to do with myself when he hits his first homerun. I am practically giddy when the kid roars like a lion. Just so I don't forget this time in his life (when he is still a baby but is learning so much), here is what he is doing these days:

Roaring like a lion
Says "mmmmmmm" for the cow sound - close enough!
Makes a fish sound
Pounds his chest like a gorilla
Makes an airplane sound - he will even do this one when we are inside, and he hears an airplane fly by outside
Says "ga ga" when I ask if he's ready to go go
Makes a little clicking sound with his tongue when you ask him how to call the cats. It's the sound I make when I'm trying to get them to come to me.
Says his own version of "hot" (sometimes sounds like "ha," sometimes "ttt") when we see the oven or the grill
Can identify his foot, knee, belly, fingers, mouth, tongue, teeth, cheeks, eyes (totally pokes his own eye out), ears, hair
Backs his little bottom into our laps and hands us books to read - he is obsessed with reading right now
Backs himself onto the bottom stair to just look around
Walks everywhere, although he isn't keen on walking in whatever direction you want him to go
Plays peekaboo with daddy every single night while eating dinner. He covers his own eyes, waits for us to exclaim, "Where did William go? Oh no! Did we lose William? Etc, etc" and then moves his hands. Of course he's been peeking through his fingers the entire time.
Says "mmmmmmm" (not the same as the cow sound!) and rubs his belly when you ask if his food is good
Hugs stuffed animals by squeezing them right up next to his ear
Dancing! He will dance anywhere to anything - it can be talk radio or the Kroger jingle

Today, Mikey and I started laughing at something, and William chimed right in with a belly laugh. So we laughed harder. Then he laughed harder. And so on. This went on for several minutes. We were practically in tears, and he was delighted with the whole situation. I'm sure it's the first of many times where he'll laugh just to be a part of things, not knowing at all what's so funny.