The Voice

Two days ago when reading his SpongeBob book to me, Elias came up with a new voice for one of the characters, Moe Blowfish.  It is a distinctive, silly voice uttered deep in the back of his throat and said with his chin in his chest and a big smile with barred teeth and deep dimples in his cheeks.  It startled me, and was very funny...and of course my laughter ensured it become a regular feature in his speech.  He uses it all the time now to say something funny.  Most commonly in the evening, he'll tuck in that chin, give me that teasing look and say in his Moe voice "I watch TV?" (knowing we only watch in the morning), then "We go outside?" (even though it's getting dark)  and laugh at the ridiculousness of it. He'll also adopt the voice with his long-running joke "Is that Mommy?" (pointing to, for example, a picture of a hippopotomus) or "Is that Elias?" (pointing to me.)