Several months before BB was born, our realtor in the States gave me a gift: the children’s book Guess How Much I Love You.
It was the first story I read to BB and quickly became part of our nightly ritual – a.k.a., my desperate attempts to get him to go to sleep.
How did we go from this at bedtime to a sneaky game of Minecraft under the covers?
“I love you all the way to the moon,” BB will say.
“I love you all the way to Pluto and back,” I’ll respond.
And so on, until we find ourselves doing circles round the Universe.
Recently, though, there’s been an uninvited guest at bedtime: the iPad. BB has managed to sneak it up to his top bunk a few times now to play games under the covers (and with a BYOD – Bring Your Own Device – programme at school, it won’t be long until it finds its way into his school bag too).
My 4yo is fast following in BB’s electronic footsteps, and took our little game to a whole new dimension tonight.
“I love you Mummy,” he called out in the dark. “I love you all the way,” he said, pausing for a second to think how to outdo me…“all the way to the highest level.”
I love that! hahaha the boys are always talking about levels and worlds. I remember Littleboy 1 saying to me in England “Can we bring UK Shreddies back with us to our world?”.
Did you ever see the Little Britain in USA pisstake of Guess How Much I love you? That was very funny.
Love what Littleboy1 said – that’s hilarious! So glad it’s not just my boys! Will look out for the Little Britain in USA episode…
The highest level…? I wonder what he thinks that is!
I can’t even begin to imagine!
Hahaha. high praise indeed!…I always had trouble reading that book without getting a little choked up. And it was even worse when I tried to read, “I’ll love you forever.” Still can’t read that one without wanting to cry.
It is a really lovely and very special book, I totally agree! (wipes tear) 🙂
Thats so funny!! But you know its true, he couldnt love you any higher than the highest level!! 😀