Beauty, Three Pigs and Other Stories

Dear Gabriel,

My favorite thing that has been happening in our relationship lately is your request to snuggle with you at bed time.

Now, you are not a very touchy child. I try to hug you and touch you and most of the time you just brush me off. Physical touch is not a huge need for you (unlike your sister!). But for the last little while you have been requesting me to snuggle with you in your bed.

When we snuggle, most of the time you want me on one side of your bed and you are on the other. And then you just talk...and talk, and talk, and talk! You debrief your day, what happened to you, what you didn't like, why you got in trouble, what you liked, what you ate, who you played with, what you are worried about... all of it.

Well, tonight you told me all about a combination of different stories. It was about how Beauty and the Beast were with the Three Little Pigs and then Ariel came and swam in their lake while Woody and Buzz LightYear brought all their toys to play. Oh how I wish I had it recorded! Your imagination and mind right now are just going crazy.

You could have gone on and on about this for another couple of hours I think. But eventually you get to a point where you say, "Okay mom, you can get down. I am done snuggling now." It is so cute.

I had a little flash forward about the times in the future when you want to talk to me... and I hope that we can always have a relationship when you just want to talk and talk to me about what happened in your day.

I love you so much,

Your Mom