Sweet dreams, sweet cheeks

I have one sassy, spunky little sweetheart under my care these days. If she doesn't wear what SHE wants to wear or if her hair isn't fixed just how SHE wants it or if her cup isn't "full to da top!" or if you deny her "chopstick", she will let you see her best go. There was one particular fit where I actually wondered to myself how I would know if she was possessed. 

But she will show you she loves you with as much energy and passion as she will tell you she disagrees. Miss Susanna Rose gives the tightest sweetest hugs. She gives the cutest little kissy noise when she gives kisses, and her little voice is adorable enough, but oh my it makes me melt when she tells me "I lub you mom!"  I hope on the really hard moments and days that I remember how she looks in her sleep - those cheeks. And how she loves Amazing Grace and her requests for songs, "I want.....hmmmmmmm....I want....hmmm...I want....silent night."  And when she says her prayers and lists her intentions, if you ask her why she prays for you, she tells you "because I lub you" with the perfect inflection.