such beautiful words, the words mothers' hearts beat a little faster when they hear, but sometimes sadly it is used as a ploy. Take in case on baby who says, "I love you, Mommy," in her baby voice that melts your heart, until you realize she's saying it to distract you from something she had no business doing or to distract from the mess she created.
And I love you is not just put out there by themselves, usually it comes with a kiss and/or trying to get you to pick her up so she can wrap her little arms around you. If you don't pick her up, she tries to climb up you until you're forced to help out or she will fall. It would all melt your heart if you didn't know she was trying to pull a fast one.
And when you don't fall for the ploy and confront the baby on what she's done she turns into my friend, Mimi. I remember Mimi getting in trouble at school, during chapel or some other class for talking usually. After her talking to she'd walk back over to the group and we'd ask, what did the teacher say; and she'd answer, "I don't know, I wasn't paying attention." We'd laugh. But I feel that's Layla, I try to get her to make eye contact with me so we can have a convo about what she was doing and she avoids my eyes like the plague. Then the tears start to fall, all ways to avoid getting into trouble or even talking about what she might have done wrong. Sometimes "I sorry, Mommy," is belted out in between the sobs and the head movement to avoid looking at Mommy. Finally Mommy has to grab the chin, then work on making the eyes look into Mommy's before the conversation can begin.
Boys say "I love you" to get sex. Girls have sex to hear "I love you." And sometimes babies say "I love you" to avoid getting in trouble.
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