With the exception of his Mama, Max loves dogs more than anything in the world. He likes books on doggies. He reads a counting book with 50 doggies on facing pages. These facing pages stick together because he finds it necessary to drool-kiss all 50. He picked out a stuffed doggie friend at the toy store and he and Will named it Annie (Hela is Will's doggie, for she has lighter hair). When Max sees a dog he points and says "daaggeeee." When you ask him "what does a doggie say?" he replies "ew ew ew." We are having his hearing checked.