“I
am a huge talker,” McCann tells Yahoo Parenting. “Cillian had been
trying to communicate for a while, but it really surprised me how clear
his ‘Hello’ was. I’m glad I got it on video, as I’m sure no one would
have believed me.”
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The
mother of four – including Sophia, 12; Ellie, 11; and Eva, 8 — with her
husband Paul McCann recently told one of her daughter’s music teachers
that the girls’ little brother had said “Hello.” But, the mom admits,
“He just looked at me like I was nuts.”
Ditto
regarding a few viewers of the clip. “Some people don’t believe it’s
real, that it’s been edited, but on the whole most people love it,”
McCann tells The Daily Mail. “That is really lovely for me as there is so much bad in the world it’s great that my wee son is spreading some joy.”
But
the tot’s biggest fans are right at home. His sisters are so excited
about the pseudo talking that they’ve been trying to get Cillian to keep
practicing. “After he said hello to me, my youngest daughter tried and
he said a much quicker ‘hawo,’” McCann tells Yahoo Parenting. “It was
cute but not as clear as the first one.”
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Still,
the mom believes her boy’s greeting wasn’t just luck. “He was trying to
speak for a while, but that day I knew he was trying to say something,”
she tells the Mail. “I’d read that babies communicate from a young age
and to give them space to answer when you talk to them.” McCann says she
was mindful, then, of giving her son a moment, as opposed to how she’d
communicated with her girls: “I think I probably just talked ‘at’ them
and didn’t give them space to respond.”
And
now the mother says she’ll continue to foster Cillian’s babbling. “I’m
saying ‘I love you’ to him at the moment,” she adds. “He loves it and is
trying to respond.” There is one thing, though, that she doesn’t want
the little man to mimic. “I’m hoping he doesn’t pick up swear words,”
McCann admits.
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