Its not a pretty sight when a 3 year old is coping with an earache and her body is blazing hot at 102.6 . It calls for a day off from preschool and certainly day off from work! Last afternoon I was helping my daughter go through the rough phase of terrible ear infection along with other parts of the package deal a.k.a runny nose, high fever and watery eyes. And all this turns an otherwise loveable adorable darling child into the most grumpy one. Well, since she was unable to sleep, I was lying with her in my bed and was kind of trying to distract her from the illness. I kept on talking about her bad she must be feeling, how yucky is nose right now, how angry she must be getting when her ear hurts, I just went on and on and on. And my daughter just grabbed my cheek with both her blazing hot feverish hands and gave me the best kiss ever and said, " Mamma, don't worry, I am so much better now".
All her mamma did was acknowledge what she was going through, gave words to her pain and it became the best medicine. Well I smiled back and gave her a kiss and then she went on to give me tight hug and said, "Mamma we are lovers"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was amazed at the choice of words and asked her to elaborate. I mean I said, " Really you feel like that?" and she said , "yeah, you love me so much that it makes me feel better all the time and I love you a lot too(with a stress of "oooo":-)), so we are lovers you see". I said you bet we are lovers!
