"Mhhm." Says I to the noise coming out of Alice's mouth as I cut up an apple for our snack.
"Ry Ruff Ew." She repeats and then says, "Tank" after receiving her slice of apple.
"You're welcome", I reply automatically.
My pantleg is tugged gently and I look down. "Ry Ruff...Ew." Alice says into my blank face, then she adds to clarify: "...Mama".
I am beset by a sudden thunderous realization and a buzzing thrill behind my cheekbones.
"I love you too baby!"
Color me gobsmacked.
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Things I swear to do with Alice before I go
- Fly alone with Alice- DONE
- Take T and Alice skiing for 1st time
- Assist Alice and T in choosing family dog
- Yell like a freakshow at Alice's Soccer game
- Walk Alice to her first day of school
- Mommy/ Baby Bath- DONE
- Splish around in Pacific, Atlantic, Aegean
- Double Dutch
- Sew her Halloween costume(s)- DONE(ish)
- Eat lots of BBQ and cobbler in Sweetwater
- Visit the Great-Great-Grandparent graves in Sweetwater
- Sit for a multi-generational family painting
- Massive family reunion squirtgun battle
- Build luminarias for Baby J
- Smell an X-mas piñon fire at Grandma's house-DONE
- Ride the Ft. Worth zoo Camel
- Dogsled
- Picnic at the Grand Canyon
- Go swimming at Barton Creek
- T- Take Alice to Rome where Mom and Dad met
- T- Have Alice read J.R. Tolkien to me
- Read C.S. Lewis to Alice
- Get Alice to identify Pleiades
- T- Roadtrip to Canada
- Build Alice a rockin' treehouse
- T- Camping (chop wood, build fire)
- Bake Gingerbread men- eat their heads
- Mother Daughter "Clue" tournament
- Show Alice how to groom a horse
- Take Alice and Tony to Zozobra Burning
- Take Alice to Balloon FIesta
4 comments:
Oh Holt, you're making me get all teary eyed! That's so awesome. Love it!
Thank you! It just melted my heart into my socks.
Today she came upon me while I was on my back doing crunches and gave me a drool filled (slightly bite-y) long kiss on the mouth.
I didn't quite know how to react to such a movie kiss from my toddler. It was both sweet and disgusting.
O.k. - this is the first time I've had a minute to check on the blog in probably close to a year (I was sorry to hear the mobile of baby joyness broke!), and I see THIS. You made me a blubbering fool in less than a second. Damn. You. Holt!
*sniff*
Ry Ruff Ew. (and Tony, too.)
Joanna
Oh Joanna! I haven't talked to you in a dogs age! What is up in your world?
Two questions:
Are you on Facebook
If not, why not?
Also Tony says, "Come visit" and I agree completely.
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