Madeline has a fear of mooing, and it's quite bizarre. If she needs to open the cow pen on her Little People Farm, she asks me to do it, and covers her ears to avoid having to hear the electronic mooing sound. She will actually guide my hand to open the door to the cow pen, but she won't touch it herself.
I didn't really think that this was more than a bizarre quirk, isolated to the Little People Farm, until I noticed that whenever Madeline would start playing with her farm animal sound puzzle, she'd bring the cow-shaped piece to me, and have me fit it into it's slot, while she braced herself for the mooing that indicates a successful puzzle match.
Maybe she just doesn't like electronic simulated mooing, but at the same time, I'm glad that we don't live on a dairy farm.
That's kind of weird. Now that you mention it... Madeline made me open up the cow door too. But we always used to ask her what sound a cow makes, and she always said MOOOO... So maybe she misses her Cow book? Or maybe it is too loud for her? what about other noises?
Posted by: julie | December 19, 2006 at 05:57 PM
Interesting. Funny little quirks kids have. Maybe she had a bad cow dream ;)
Posted by: Jaime | December 22, 2006 at 09:10 PM