My Kid Is Sweeter Than My Mom's Kid!
Today at the pet store, my daughter saw a face not unlike this one:
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and told me, "Lionfish sad." She saw a bulldog this morning and made the same accusation; her pattern of behavior suggests that she is far more sensitive than I have ever been.
We stood aside the aquarium for a few more seconds before she bumped her face and head against the glass--not with the gusto with which she likes to startle the fish, but more deliberately. She looked up to me and said, "I want hug him." I hope to God (or whatever my relatives are calling their all-powerful Omni-Santa these days) that your sweet heart survives these next few decades better than mine did, Button.
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(34 days ago)
I can't wait to visit with both of your families, CPF and MNM. Our kids are going to have a Sweet-Off! Unfortunately, our kid's going to get points deducted for being sweet when it's actually time to go to bed.
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Awww! What a sweet, sweet girl. And she recognizes that a downturned mouth indicates sadness - what a clever little bit!
I think given the opportunity, children can surprise us with their sensitivity and compassion. Little B used to help give me my anti-emetics when I was pregnant with Ada. He said "I want to help give mommy her medicine." He also cried during "Monsters" because he thought that Boo didn't have any parents and that was why Sully was taking care of her.
I am often saddened when I see him doing sweet things for his sister, because I know that society will unapologetically beat that sense of kindness out of him because he is a boy. In a few years, I'm sure I will wonder where my sweet boy went.