I dove you Attah

She loves him. She loves him. She loves him.

It is amazing how much she loves him. She loves to give him hugs. She loves to give him kisses. Her love for him is simple. She loves him.

She tells him, often.

"I dove you Attah." she says.

Well, that isn't true. It isn't like that at all. You probably imagine her looking at him with a blissful smile on her face. You probably imagine that, in a soft voice, she says those words. It isn't like that. We are considering going to a child psychologist.

We think what happens is that she becomes so filled up with love, that, if she doesn't attempt to slow it down, it will flood out onto Asher and suffocate him. That all of her love will be to much and he will become smothered. So she tries to slow it down; a crack in the dike.

"I dove you Attah."

Ok. To see it you have to imagine a possessed being. She clenches her teeth together. You must imagine the sound of gnashing teeth. Mostly because there is the sound of gnashing teeth. Her lips are wide, almost as if they make a square around those grinding pearly whites. Her neck is taut due to the exertion needed to pull her lips back, to hold the love in so that it eases out; remember the flood? Her eyes are full. Full of, well, it looks a little like rage, but we are pretty sure that it is the intensity of a heart on fire. Her hands hold . . . well, a little more than hold . . . maybe grip, or clasp, clench each side of Asher's head, or hand, or foot, really, what ever is closest. Then, looking into his eyes, she seethes, "I dove you, Attah." The Attah is drawn out. The first three words are punctuated. If a stranger was present, and heard her, there is the possibility that he may not be able to understand what she said and become concerned for the welfare of Asher. Her Uncle Nick, Mommy's brother, isn't a stranger. He loves Tahlia. He has loved her ever since he held her for the first time at UVA Medical Center shortly after her birth. He found it, well, a little creepy.

In addition to wanting to always hold him, and smiling and laughing ridiculously when she does, recently, she has taken to putting her feet on his head. How can anyone doubt her love?