Awwwww....

Jamie and Connor have sort of been at each other's throats lately, fighting about seemingly everything, especially toys, since each one seems to decide that he only wants to play with the toy that the other one has at the moment. There are some moments of detente and mutual play occasionally, and even affection. One such moment occurred at bedtime recently.

Now to set the stage, one must be aware that although Jamie is very demonstrative with his friends, often greeting them with big bear hugs, his expressions of affection with Connor are perfunctory at best. For his part Connor's idea of hugging and kissing tends to be simply leaning forward and proffering a cheek or his shoulders to receive attention. But he has been very into the phrase "I love you" lately. He says this particularly when we put him to bed now. Sometimes after we close the door we can still hear him in there saying it for a couple of minutes. He really understand the sentiment, too. Sarah recently came to give him a quick kiss while he was eating and he responded to the kiss with "I love you too!" Very cute.

So on the night in question we told them as usual to give each other a hug. Jamie put his arms around Connor and seems to have realized how nice it is to hug Connor. So, suddenly he's giving Connor another big hug. Connor of course responded with a big, heartfelt, "I LOVE YOU JAMIE!!!!"