hello! ...chau!

You've probably forgotten what Maeve looks like, since she wasn't featured in the previous post, so here she is again. Just pretending to talk on the phone, but what can I say? I'm her mama, everything she does is cute! (Almost.)

This was a week and a half ago (after church on Sunday), and since then what she normally says on/to a phone has changed from "hello" to "hi dada". She misses her daddy! She throws a fit, too, if someone dares to take the phone from her while Z is still on it, so now we just let her be the last one to talk to him. Then she ditches on her terms.

ALSO, the last couple of days, she's been repurposing "hello" as a way to ask for something. Example: I was making guacamole for dinner tonight and Maeve arrived, little hand sticking up. She oozed her way between me and the counter and started saying "heh-whoa! heh-whoa!" until I popped a piece of avocado in her mouth. Like she's announcing her presence and demanding to taste whatever goody is around. "Um, hellO-o! Feed me!" To her credit, she has also started saying a version of "thank you" sometimes, so she's not a total barbarian. (I do wish she would hum it, like cousin Aoife, though! ;)

And the thumb wave accompanying the "chau"... that's not normal. She just likes to mix things up a bit sometimes.

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