the sounds of parenthood

you know the sound that happens when women "bare down" during child labor?  or when a toddler may have eaten too much iron and has to use some extra force to "take care of business"?  it's a sound that can be made by taking a breath, holding it, and grunting/moaning. often, this noise is accompanied by a dark red face. 

i see the dark red face, and hear the laborious grunting noise, every day.  why?  because it is now harrison's normal reaction to the word "no". 

mama: "harrison, you can't climb out of your highchair and onto the dining room table" (spoken while placing harrison back on his bottom).

harrison:  ignores mama.  begins climbing out of highchair again.

mama: "NO!"  (spoken while placing harrison back on his bottom again).

harrison: MMRRMMRRUUUGH!!!  (spoken with an unhappy, "i want to climb on the dining room table RIGHT NOW", inflection).