Roar!

At the tender age of one year, my darling daughter has found her voice, and her opinion! Ok, she found her voice, and her opinion long ago, but now she has really discovered how to express one with the other. Lately, when she is feeling frustrated, she expresses this by making a breathy rooaarr or a hissssing sound. Sometimes I have to wonder where she gets her sounds or expressions. Has she heard me or her father "roaring" in frustration? Or is this some kind of inborn thing? She used to whimper, and rarely cry, when she was feeling frustrated. What caused that to change? Suddenly the program shifts at age one? I admit I have experienced some strange feelings when she utilizes her new repertoire of sounds. Is she angry at me? Does she hiss at other people? (she does) I guess it has been alarming to me, because until this point she has almost always been very easy-going, and easy to soothe. This really hasn't changed. I guess the sounds just represent something different to me. So I guess that is it, really. Her expression of frustration has simply changed along with her vocal abilities. I have allowed this change to mean something more than it likely does. My brother once suggested to me that one doesn't so much raise a child as the child raises the parent. Hm. It's hard growing up!