Em, who will turn 10 in just over a month, still likes me to lie down with her at night while she's falling asleep. I do so on alternate nights, when I'm not lying down with N.
The other night, she was tossing and turning a lot, and I was getting annoyed at having to stay there for longer than usual, but I didn't say anything. Eventually, she started to settle down, but first grabbed my hand and pulled it over her. As I felt her start to slip off, I also felt her squeeze my hand three times, our signal for "I love you." I squeezed it back four times, our signal for "I love you, too."
I waited a beat, then added another four squeezes, to which she squeezed back twice. I laughed out loud.
"What do you think I was saying in my squeezes?" I asked.
"Now go to sleep," she said, then giggled when I gasped a little.
"And you squeezed back, 'OK,' right?" I asked.
"Yup."
"How did we know what the other was saying?"
"I guess we're just a lot alike," she said with a yawn, and she was off, and I lay there for a while, feeling both tickled and slightly weirded out that my daughter can read my mind.
1 comment:
Damn, that's cute.
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