One of the very first books that we read to the girls had a hippo with a mouth that you could open and close. We made a sound effect for the mouth where we would go “Aaah” whenever the mouth was open. Recently, we were reading But Not the Hippopotamus, and Miranda started doing the same “Aaah” sound while pointing out each picture of a hippopotamus.
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We don’t know why the “Aaah”s become so insistent at the end, but they seem very important to Miranda.