She's a tender girl

The Animalia is sweeter than pie, sweet as candy, sugar, and all that stuff. She just is. And I wonder where this tender lovey personality came from because I'm just not. I guess I am, with her, but she's a dear. She'll randomly run up to her Daht and give him kisses, muah! muah! and will randomly throw her arms around her tata and say "HUG!" (only it sounds like hog, kind of). She makes her dolls and stuffed animals kiss each other. And when she's not ordering the dog around and telling him NO! she loves on him too.

Lately even her NOs are kind of sweet. "Noh, Nama, no," she says, no longer with the clipped urgency of her previous NOs. Those were abrupt NOs, they were short and with an exclamation point at the end. Her new NOs are soft explanations of what she doesn't like. "Noh, Dah," she'll say, when he's messing with her face. They're not eye-rolling NOs, not yet, and it's very cute.

Last night, when I got home, she saw me and said "MAMA!" and then she danced the way she dances when we give her something good to eat. And then she ran to me and threw her arms around my legs and said "Lahb!" which I think is LOVE.

She's a love.