While Alexis was Michigan J. Frog with her refusal to make eye contact with the world but a need to put on a show when she was at home, Mila is much less predictable. Sometimes Mila will talk a stranger's ears off; other times she hides and pretends to be shy. You never really know which version you will get.
The shy version is interesting, to say the least. It's all an act. There is no part of that child that is genuinely shy, but she can pull it off when she tries. Which means she will be able to pull off other personality swap things some day. Which, UGH.
The other version, though. That one is more genuine. Mila isn't going to run up to every stranger on the planet and tell them stories, but she will greet them and sometimes throw in a word or two. So far she has refrained from saying anything too terribly embarrassing for any of us, but it's coming.
Oh, it's coming.
This week, she loudly declared to a man in Target, "I have a burp in my mouth" right before she burped at him. Then she cackled with glee because is there anything funnier? I don't think there is.
But I'll find out because that kid is nowhere near done with opening her mouth and saying the most random of things.