Henry Speaks Oddly

I wanted to make note of an interesting habit of Henry for future reference.
There are some words that he says by scrambling the rest of the sounds of the word after the initial consonant.
The best example I have is Music.
He says, "Micus", pronouncing it MEE-kooz, so that the phonetic sounds are all there, just mixed.
He does it repeatedly, consistently, and can obviously hear well enough to copy almost every other word he hears anyone say, including their inflection. So it isn't his hearing. And he doesn't seem to grin or look at us when he does it, which might make me think he was intentionally joking or playing a game. I guess I still think he is playing a little game, but I'm not sure.
He does something similar with "butterfly", but I can't place or remember how he jumbles the sounds for that. He also does this sound combination consistently, though.
Interesting.

And tonight, on a walk to our neighborhood Nature Trail, he discovered his shadow. He spent quite a frustrating, if somewhat charming portion of the walk saying hello to his shadow and looking for it in the shade.
Adorable. Looking forward to him understanding Peter Pan.

He and Audrey love a Thomas the Train reader book we got at the library. Mostly for Olivia to sound out the words, but the twins love it so much they want it read every night. After a week, they can both give the last word to every rhyming line in the book. This isn't necessarily that precocious or original, but I was always so tickled when Olivia did this too, that I'm doubly charmed to hear these two bark out the words.

They like peaches, still won't give up their pacifiers at night, and have only used the poddy chairs a couple times each. Their favorite game right now is to tell me, "Go night-night, Daddy!" Then after my head drops onto my chest and I'm instantly snoring, they shout, "Wake up, Daddy!" Then laugh uproariously when I jerk alert. It will break them out of a full cry to join up the call and response. Nice tool to have in the drawer.

Interlude, to post character studies

Just look at their faces. This sort of rubberface goofballedness is commonplace for these imps. Still photography is the only way to capture the humor of it; motion allows no time for response and appreciation. This can be incredibly frustrating when all you want is one nice picture for...oh what are nice pictures generally for anyway?
That said, they are very polite at the beginning of dinner. Please and thank you for their food, big smiles, very pleasant. This lasts about 5 minutes before their fingers go into their cups and they start blowing raspberries in their milk. Literally.