About a month ago I read this book to the boys. We were all curled up on mommy and daddy’s “big bed” and I’m not sure if that had anything to do with it, but the book really seems to have stuck. Since then the boys have been looking for ways to tell us how much they love us.
Lij has been trying out various phrases, trying to wrap his four-year-old mind around the biggest concept he can. I love you all the way to the moon. I love you up to heaven and back. I love you into outer space and back. I love you all the way to a galaxy far, far way. And then he asks how much we love him. And if we don’t respond with exactly the same phrase, it means we don’t love him. At. All.
Not to be outdone, Dyl has also been testing his ability to quantify love. The other day, when Alexander was leaving, the boys had gathered around him to say goodbye and gather hugs and kisses. After bestowing his hug, Dyl proudly proclaimed: “Daddy, I love you all the way to work. And back.”
“Oh, that’s far,” said Big Nutbrown Hare. “That is very, very far.”
2 comments:
This is my all time, very favorite book. My 7yo and I play that game ALLL the time. He tells me, "I love you all the way to China!" and I tell him, "I love you all the way to China and back and then to the bottom of the ocean!"
Anyway, yiou get the idea. We love it.
~K!
Ah, yes! "I love you all the way to a land far, far away," she says with tears in her eyes. I'm ever grateful that love knows no bounds and travels easily through time and space. It's as close as a thought and as real as a heartbeat and as everlasting as a promise.
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