coo

Usually it plays out as a cute moment, the assembled gaggle cooing awwww at the exchange as the queried party answers far more effusively than they do for their daily adult nemeses.

The birds perched in the trees were not vultures but gentle cooing doves, with a few comically roosting chickens mixed among them.

“Like a big sister who everyone ignores when cooing over the new baby,” she scolded herself sternly.

Lady Constance cooed fondly and falsely over the children while her mother-in-law was watching, but that too changed the moment the lady was gone.

I found myself cooing at and falling in love with every child that passed by.