The Hiccups

Yesterday at lunch I cracked open a soda and quickly got the hiccups. They were the loud and sort of peainful kind. Mite apparently got the imitation hiccups right afterward. He kept making the same exact sounds as he sat in the highchair. Then Cents got a bit concerned about me. She was afraid I was "puke sick" as she calls it. She doesn't like puke sick. I know, who does. Then I did my cure: took a deep breath, plugged my nose, did a deep knee bend, tucked my head and just stayed there till I felt I was going pass out if I didn't take a breath. It works, really. But of course I had to do it several times, so I could stop and try to explain it all to Cents. But then the hiccup game was done. How can he make that exact sound and only have a vocabulary of Mama, no, and uhoh? Go figure.