Little Faker

Juliette has picked up a few little charming tricks over the past few weeks.

It started about 3 weeks ago when I was feeding her. She took too big a slug of water from her sippy cup and started coughing and sputtering. She coughed long enough to be on the verge of being upset, so Becoming-A-Mom and I made a game out of it. We pretended to make coughing noises ourselves and laughed. Pretty soon she started to make fake coughing noises too, with a big smile on her face.

That has continued. She regularly makes fake coughing noises in order to make us laugh or get attention. She has a mischievous smile on her face when she’s doing this.

In the last couple of days she’s picked up two new tricks – making fake laughing sounds, or fake crying noises. It’s really hard to tell sometimes when she’s making the fake crying to tell if  it’s real or not, especially if you’re a bit of a distance away or not paying attention to what’s going on. She’s faked me out a few times where I really thought she was upset and crying for some reason. What gives it away is the little grin that comes after she gets us to look.

I have no idea how she learned this or when she decided it was a good thing to do. But our little faker is full of surprises, so I’m sure we’re in for more tricks in the coming days and weeks.