the best feeling

When your 3 year old little girl runs up to you, out of the blue, and throws her arms around your neck, turns her head back over her shoulder to look at your husband and says:  "Dadda, I love Mama" and then turns back to look straight in your eyes and tells you:  "Mama, you my best friend"….

It is the BEST feeling in the whole world.

What a treasure I have.

(she is trying to reach through this hole to give me a kiss…saying "kiss kiss kiss!!!")

Things she says 2/2015

We were unloading our cart at Costco and Ivy was holding tight to a box of fruit leather.  I told her that we needed to put it on the belt and pay for it before opening it.  She just held it and looked at me.  I finally had to pull it gently from her hands.  Her eyes welled with tears and that crinkled up sad face looked up at me, about to break.  I pulled her from the cart and hugged her and she said "Mama, you breaked my heart".


Me:  "Ivy, you're amazing."

Ivy:  "I do my best."


At every nap time and bedtime, when I tuck her in, after songs and prayers I lean in, nose to nose, and whisper "I love you soooooooo much and you are so very special to me.  And, you make me so happy."  I started reassuring her this because one of her common questions has been to check on me with "Mama, are you happy?".  She is very sensitive and very intuitive.  And, unfortunately, this mama has a tendency to be moody and emotional at times.  It worried me that she was growing paranoid about whether I am happy and whether she is frustrating me or making me happy.  :(  So, I started this reassurance with her.  And, each time I say it to her, she always says right back "NO!  I love YOU and you are fecial (special) to ME and you make ME happy!".  We go back and forth a few times and then both settle in agreement that we both love each other so much.
I haven't heard her ask me whether I am frustrated or happy in a few weeks now!  ;)