THE RADIO OPERATOR

Recently when Allegra gets tired, her thumb goes to her mouth (nothing new), and the unoccupied hand goes to her ear, so that she looks like a radio operator or something. And she switches off - sometimes it's the right thumb in her mouth, left hand on her left earlobe. Other times it's her left thumb in her mouth, with her right hand on her right earlobe. It's really whatever strikes her at the moment.