what with his ever growing set of teeth and his propensity to growl and snort when he’s really happy ( while we suspect he learned the former behavior from mauja , we’re still trying to figure out the who has been teaching odin to snort when we’re not around ), when i snapped this picture i thought how it was quite nice that he hadn’t quite figured out that biting can be impressive way to communicate that you want something when you can’t quite get the words out.

of course, having merely thought the thought means i’ve guaranteed that within the next week or so he’ll start experimenting with the parental behavior modification technique, which is why i’m reviewing methods for curbing toddler biting since i’m not sure that we can readily transfer the methods we used to train mauja that biting was a Bad Thing 🙂