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I You Too

I was squatted down in the kitchen, looking for a can of vegetables, this evening when the daughter came up behind me, put her arms around me from behind, and said, “I you Daddy.” She’s been saying “I You,” which is how she says “I Love You,” for some time but it’s always been repeated back after saying it to her first.

It’s hard not to well up a bit at that. When, all of a sudden, at just about 22 months, she’s starting to express feelings other than something tantrum-based. When, for the past 6 months, it’s been repetitively “No” to this and that and everything. When, at her young age, she’s beginning to, I think, show appreciation for people and to miss people and to love people and maybe know, just a little, what love means to her in some way.

I turned, when she said this, put my arms around her, and told her, “I You Too” and she looked me in the eye, leaned into me, and gave me a big squeezy hug before heading off to chase one of the cats down.

• May 12th, 2005
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