verve

verve: energy and enthusiasm

My niece cracks me up. We were rocking in a big leather recliner, playing with my cell phone and its phone-shaped cover. Just relaxing, mostly. When all of a sudden my niece decides to “call me” (note she is two and a half). I pick up the phone and we start talking. Then, she abruptly interrupts me and says, “Hang on Aunt Monique, I am calling my boyfriend. I need to go to my boyfriend's house soon.” So I say, “Pardon me” and politely hang up the phone. She then has a full on conversation with her “boyfriend”… but eventually calls me back. She’s like a mini person!

Update 6/17/2011: today my sister Jess brought her kids over to see my house and I was playing Polly Pocket on my bed with my nieces when I decide to ask Madison (the two and a half year old) how her boyfriend is doing. She turned to me with a forlorn look and sighed, “Oh you know. We broke up.” So I quickly changed the subject and complemented her on her newly pierced ears, “your earrings are so beautiful!” I said. “I know, thanks” she says. Ha!