MIND the yap!

Not very long ago I had written a post on how I was teaching my one-year-old to communicate so that one day I find my best friend in her
( http://paularay.blogspot.com/2007/05/games-your-mind-plays-with-you.html ).

Three years later, she talks non-stop - starting even before she opens her eyes in the morning - and asks innumerable 'irrelevant' questions. So much so that most of our time together is spent with me trying to shut her up either with a Walt Disney movie or a book about a 'Hairy-Scary Monster'! But then, if I get too upset with her and she is kind of forced to do as I wish, she comes to me and asks: "Are you happy?"

Now, how am I supposed to respond to that? She isn't mature enough to use sarcasm, is she? So yes, I take her question at face value and say: "Yes, I am."

She has made a couple of good friends at her creche. But the other evening after returning home, in between her chatter, she asked: "Mamma, are you my best friend?" I was engulfed with such emotion that I could only hug her and say: "Of course, I am."