While Ruby was sick, in an effort to bring a smile to her eyes again, I asked one day “do you know how much Mummy loves you?” and stretched my arms out as far as they would go to show just how much. She cottoned on to this really quickly (I got the sparkly smile I wanted too!) and now we have a special shorthand. She’ll come up to me at any random moment and hold her hands together and simply say “this much?”, to which my response is always “no!! Way more than that!” until ‘this much’ gets bigger bit by bit until her arms are spread as far as they can go and her smile is about as wide.
So to vary it a little, I said one day “how much do you love Leah?” and was very taken aback to find only about 3cm was offered up. After trying to coax a little more out of her, we finally learned that it was only because “she very little!” … whew! Another mistaken sibling rivalry moment vanquished!
