Love for a four-year old

This is my 4-year old niece, Shann, undoubtedly my favorite. She taught me the valuable lesson that there are lots of things that money CAN buy. But for everything else, there's a child's smile.


I remember the first time we were teaching her to say "I love you" and she'd say "Wuv yoooo..." And we would just keep telling her that everyday with the biggest hug we can give.


But now that she can say it on her own and better, she'd just bombard us with it till we can't anymore contain it.




"I love you." she'd say out of the blue.

"I know. You keep saying it."

"Yes. You might forget."

Isn't it true? We love people and we know that they know but it makes so much difference telling them. And although love is beyond words, it makes a big difference being told that we are loved than just simply knowing it in our heads, doesnt it?

This, we often forget and take for granted.

"I love you!!!" she'd yell for another time.

I'd smile. "And how big is that love?"


And she'd stretch out her arms as far and wide as she could (even falling sometimes). "As big as thissssssssssssssssssss..." For her, that's infinity. It's without measure.

And that's just the sweetest.