ROBERT SIEGEL, host: Audio and attitude combine in our series of SoundClips, moments our listeners tell us about as they've listened to their lives. Today's example is a small sound that carries enormous significance for one family.</s>Mr. JERRY DEATON: My name is Jerry Deaton. I'm from Frankfurt, Kentucky. About 12 years ago, my wife, Leslie, and I decided to build our own logged home. We did most of the work ourselves with some help from my dad. We have two daughters, Sophie and Emmy, and the sound that I wanted to share with you is Emmy actually coming down a little winding set of stairs that come from our bedroom down to the kitchen.</s>Mr. JERRY DEATON: Emmi is now seven, but she's always taken the stairs one little step at a time, both little feet landing on each step individually. And it kind of makes a thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump sound.</s>Mr. JERRY DEATON: And it almost sounds like a human heart beat and it really gives our house some personality and almost makes it a member of the family. I guess one thing we realized is that she's probably not going to do that forever, and the little thump thump sound could go away just any day. And it's something that we really are going to miss.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, host: Jerry Deaton and footsteps on the stairs of his Frankfurt, Kentucky, home. There's more about SoundClips at NPR.org.
Listener Jerry Deaton of Frankfort, Ky., tells us why the thump thump thump of his daughter's feet on the stairs of his self-built log cabin mean so much to him and his wife.