why my heart is goo

just a few of the ways that cadence can make my heart melt:

• the way she eats her cheerios
• the way she feeds me her cheerios with her little fingers (and then takes them out of my mouth to feed herself)
• the way she says ‘mmmWAH’ whenever she gives me a kiss
• the way she says ‘mmmWAH’ whenever she gives her teddy bear or any other lucky toy a kiss

• the way she scrunches up her little nose and huffs and puffs like she's a big bad wolf
• the way she giggles and laughs like a mad scientist
• the way she wiggles her body while making little fists with her hands
• the way she crawls with her head bobbing from side to side, like she’s skipping
• the way she crawls with her head down like she’s a charging rhinoceros
• the way she crawls up to my guitar and strums the strings while humming a note

  

• the way she calls me ‘mommy’ or ‘ummay’ in her tired ‘please hold me’ voice
• the way she wraps her little arms around my shoulders and buries her head in my chest
• the way she tugs on my pant legs to be picked up
• the way she crawls into my lap without hesitation and without any doubt that that is where she belongs

• the way she plays with her daddy with total abandon and glee
• the way she says ‘da DA, da DA” in her sing-songy voice
• the way she falls asleep in her daddy's arms while slowdancing to Beck
• the way she shakes her little booty to the noggin channel’s music videos

• the way she meows when she reads her kitty cat book
• the way she’ll pick up a random rectangular object and hold it to her ear and start talking into it in her ‘telephone voice’
• the way she hides my ATM card, work id, bus pass, train pass, etc under the rug
• the way she crawls under my desk and pulls herself up with her head between my legs while i’m working on the computer



• the way she claps and goes 'woo-hoo' at the end of a song
• the way she plays with her own hair as she nurses
• the way she wakes up with a big smile on her face
• the way she babbles to me in complete paragraphs, confident that i understand every word she says

• and the list goes on and on...