COO — Sharon Mark Cohen

Merriam-Webster: coo

verb
to make the low soft cry of a dove or pigeon or a similar sound

The baby cooed quietly in her crib.

Almost like a cat’s purr, the sound of our granddaughter’s coo was tantalizing.

Merriam-Webster: tantalizing

adjective

: possessing a quality that arouses or stimulates desire or interest

When our daughter went to the store, we were babysitting and playing with our two-month-old baby granddaughter Stevie while she was lying on her playmat and kicking her legs. She let out a sweet faint coo sound. What a joy to behold.

Merriam-Webster: sweet

adjective

Selections from several definitions include:

: pleasing to the mind or feelings: agreeable, satisfying — often used as a generalized term of approval

how sweet it is

and

: delicately pleasing to the ear or eye

a sweet melody

or

: much loved: dear

adverb

: in a sweet manner

Merriam-Webster: faint

adjective

Here, I chose the first definition:

: hardly perceptible: dim

faint handwriting

In the photo, Baby Stevie is resting her tootsies on Grandma. Really, a coo and relaxed resting on Grandma, it doesn’t get any better than that.

Merriam-Webster: tootsie

noun (1)

toot·sie ˈtu̇t-sē

1

: dear, sweetheart

(For our purposes, we’ll skip the second meaning of the word tootsie. Upon further querying, while the correct plural spelling is tootsies, the slang for the singular word foot is spelled tootsy, which does not have the same definition as the word tootsie)

tootsy

noun

toot·sy ˈtu̇t-sē

variants or less commonly tootsie

plural tootsies

: foot

Let’s see what Merriam-Webster has to say about tiny baby feet. On second thought, while you check, I’ll be flipping through more pictures and reliving Stevie’s baby sights and sounds and daydreaming about that baby smell and feel. All the while, in my thoughts, I’ll be hearing…coo…