We love you, Sage!

A what could possibly be sweeter than to hear your child say I love you? Nothing. I'm sure of it. A couple days ago, I was singing a song to Sage that featured those words, and she spontaneously began saying "I love you" to me, and when I told her it would be nice to tell Dada she loved him when he got home, she started saying, "Dada, I love you, Dada, I love you!" and then "Mama, I love you, Mama, I love you!" It really sounds more like "I yuh you" but we know what she's saying. My goodness, I think I must have the sweetest child in the world. Later we talked to Grandma Alice and Emma on the phone, and she told them she loved them too. Dada's heart was completely melted, I think, when he came home to such a sweet welcome: kisses, hugs, gentle pats on the shoulder and multiple assertions of "Dada, I love you."

I also have been forgetting to mention that Sage has been out of diapers for a few weeks now. She is VERY good at sitting on the potty to pee, and she doesn't even need a diaper at night (though we do have to get up to sit on the potty multiple times per night). We think it's pretty amazing for 19 months old! Before anyone gets concerned, I certainly didn't push her to potty train so early. She was "all done" with diapers, and all I had to do was show her that the potty was an OK place to pee.

AND, Sage has been doing so well at eating with a spoon and fork at the dinner, that I wanted to include this little video of her eating soup with a spoon, and not spilling a drop!