Kiri and I were waiting for Liam at school this afternoon. After a couple of minutes he went and collected his good-bye hug from his teacher and headed towards the door. Kieran ran straight into his arms, shrieking, “Yee Yee! Yee Yee!’ He wrapped his arms around Liam and hugged him so tightly that Liam looked a bit lavenderish. He squeaked, “Mommy? Help me! He’s making me too hot and too chokeable!” He then pulled Kieran off him.
Kiri looked so sad that Liam relented. “OK, Kiri, we can hug, but be gentle. Gentle!” Beaming, Kieran jumped at him again, hugging him with only a bit less intensity. Liam sighed, wrapped his arms around Kiri in return, and said to me, “Mommy? Kiri is a sweet baby, and cute. Maybe the sweetest and cutest ever. So how come a baby that looks so cute gives out such painful hugs? He’s hurting me!”
Before I could answer, Kieran said, “Me happy baby in world. Me hold Yee Yee forever. Me Happy Baby!” Grinning from ear to ear, he jumped up and down, holding on to Liam the whole whole time. Liam winced.
“Kieran, if I give you one of my cookies, could you pretend to be less happy? Pleeeeeeease?”
Brotherly love is such a complicated thing!
I love it… “Me Happy Baby!”
So sweet. And making me a bit nostalgic with the “Yee Yee”. J called M “Ya Ya” before she could say her name