A Most Precious Comment

In the past year, Charlie and Wylie have become very in to numbers.  Especially big numbers.  I must get asked several times a day if something is a really big number.  While they are a bit confused they get the idea that the more digits there are, the bigger the number.  This game of "Say the Biggest Number" can get quite competitive between the two of them!   For example, Charlie might say "Mom, I want to ride my scooter for one hundred two hundred twenty nine hundred minutes."  Wylie will then add her two cents in and remark with something like "Mom, can I paint my toenails five hundred ninety nine one hundred times?"  

Regardless of how they say these "numbers" they get the idea that big numbers are just that - BIG, therefore, they are important.  (At least I think that is what they think from the many "numbers" I get asked about!) 

For two days, I have been thinking about one of the most precious comments Wylie said to me.  A comment that melted my heart in a big, hot mess!  A comment that has been on the tip of my brain for 2 days because of how sweet and innocent it was.  

  

"Mom, I love you all the way to 197."  

One sentence.  That was it.  

And then I was a teary eyed mess standing in her bedroom trying to get it together over a basket of laundry before I had to explain why her little itty bitty sentence would be a line I would never ever forget! 

 I am so thankful for that moment.  It was a moment filled with a comment that I honestly listened to and heard.  I think, well, I know, I heard it more with my heart than my ears.  I know she was trying in her little 5 year old way to say she loved me (as we say every night) lots and lots!  I know that in her mind the number 197 was as big as she could think of and I hope (and I am pretty sure) that she was telling her mommy she loved me in the biggest way possible.  (Please let me be right on that one!!)  

And so, here I sit, 2 days later, trying to write a blog post about one sentence and still I can't replay the memory without it making me tear up again!  

I don't know if I can ever put enough words in these post that will really, really, really tell my little loves how dear, special, irreplaceable and loved from their heads to their toes they are!!  Even thinking about how much I love them makes me weepy.  

Clearly, I am a mom whose first loves are entering Kindergarten!!  

Wylie, you are a momma in the making!  You are so observant and patient.  I love that you tell me you want to grow up BUT you will still give me kisses and hugs when you are 6!!  You soak everything in and never miss a beat!  I am so thankful for you!  

I love you lots and lots!!! 

Or should I say, I love you all the way to 198!