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May
13
This morning, driving to school:
Riley: “Why’s that guy going?”
Me: “Hm? What guy?”
Riley: “The guy in the song.”
I listen: Quasi is playing on KEXP, singing “I’m never coming back again, I’m never coming back again. You can’t close that door for forevermore, I’m never coming back again.”
Me: “I’m not sure, sweetie.”
Riley: “You’re not going, are you?”
Me: “What? Me? No, of course not.”
Riley: “And Daddy’s not going?”
Me: “No, no. This is just a song. Someone else wrote it.”
Riley: “You’re going to stay forever, right?”
Me: “Well. I’m going to be around for a long, long time.”
Riley: “And you and Daddy aren’t ever going to do like in the song.”
Me: “No, no. We would never leave you, ever. Never in a million years. We’re a family, right?”
Riley: “Yeah.”
Me: “And we stick together, right?”
Riley: “Right.”
Me: “Is there a reason you think we might leave?”
Riley: “No . . . it’s just that this song is kind of a sad song.”
Me: “Should we listen to a different song?”
Dylan: “PLAY RO MA MA? PLAY RO MA MA?”
Me: “Lady Gaga it is. Hey Riley?”
Riley: “What?”
Me: “I love you.”
Riley: “I love you too.”
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Oh Linda. Wow.
And that picture? IS YOUR FACE.
So sweet.
Riley looks just like you in that picture.
Eric loves Bad Romance too, I had to put it on my iPod for him.
Awwww…priceless!
Holy hell that’s the most adorable thing I’ve heard in a long long time. You are all too precious for words.
And I love that “RO MA MA” is Lady Gaga.
Wow – its always startling (and humbling) to realize what close attention kids pay. And, he’s right, that is kind of a sad song.
So sweet. Sometimes we all just need a little reassurance.
Your kid? Is like a thousand years old.
That little puddle over there? Yes, that’s my heart. It just melted over reading that story.
Your sweet baby looks just like you .. what a little man he is!
Sometimes, when I read things like that, I want to figure out a way to build an ever growing snuggli type device so I can carry my boy with me forever.
Obviously that is totally developmentally wrong and would wreck my back and is just weird, but sometimes…
Annnnnd now I can’t stop crying. This is unbearably sweet.
It’s so sweet of Riley to make note of the song and worry about his family.
I’ve been reading your blog for a while now and every time I read, you could always somehow in someway in some words make me laugh. But this time, I almost cried after finished reading this. It totally made my heart melt.
oh my god, he is too precious.
*sniff*
so sweet. and really, that picture just totally made it all that much more sweeter.
he does look like you. a lot!
Your kids make me want to have kids. Good thing too, since one is coming out in about a month.
Confidential to Dylan- Don’t be embarrassed about this Lady Gaga thing later on in life. We all love her, even if we deny it.
Oh that’s so lovely!
~ melt ~
The kids love the Gaga! A friend told me yesterday her son wanted to listen to the “burger face” song, poker face! Haha
He is such a sweet, sensitive little boy. What a man he is going to become.
He is so sweet, seriously.
Ack so sweet. I can’t believe they’ve gone and got so big… Dylan slays me.
And then your heart burst out of your chest and exploded into a million peices right? SIGH
What a great shot of Riley – so cute. And not a suspicious wrinkled brow to be found!
Aw, he is so sweet. When I was Riley’s age I used to cry whenever I heard “The Long and Winding Road”….something about “Don’t leave me waiting here…”
Those little ones are so fearless and so fragile all at once. My goodness what an awesome responsibility. So rewarding though..
Props to Dylan for lightening the mood with a little Lady Gaga :)
I tell my 19 month old “I love you” because I do and because I love to hear him say it back to me.
Wow. He looks so much like you in that picture.
Awww…*sniff* got a tear in my eye…sweet little boy…
“Like” ;)
Your kids are just precious. Riley is very intelligent- how he actually listens to the lyrics of songs and understands them! I’ve never known a child as young as he is do that.
And Dylan loves Lady Gaga- how cute!!!
You’re so lucky, Linda. You’re a great mom, and your kids are fantastic.
That is both very sweet and kind of sad. Poor kids, they are growing up in a tough world where people- kids!- are experiencing heartbreak and loss all the time. I’m so glad your little boys can grow up in a family that loves each other :)
My two year old loves Gaga – asks for her daily. Could be worse I figure :-).
Cute.
What is it with toddlers and Lady Gaga??!!?
My one knows ALL and I mean all the words to Bad Romance….
Oh, man, this was beautiful to read. And it had to be more beautiful to have actually experienced it. That’s gonna be one of those memories that will always stay with you, no matter how old he gets.
Awwww. It’s crazy what kids can pick up on, even when you don’t think they’re paying attention.
What an awesome little dude :)
And he looks JUST like you in that picture!
So sweet. And Riley is, as always, movie-star adorable.
*Poof!* My heart just exploded.
Isn’t it amazing how kids can look like BOTH parents. When Riley’s not smiling and being suspicious, I see JB. When he’s all smiles, it’s ALL you. …I guess this means we can blame JB for his suspicious-ness. ness.
Oh Linda.
My kids like Bad Romance too. And, alarmingly, I can’t get it out of my own head.
Oh wow. I swear I’ve had this exact same conversation. I think I have the female versions of your children.
Gulp.
Excuse me, I have to dry my eyes.
I swear I couldn’t love your kids any more if they were my own.
Oh, Riley. If there were only a way to bottle that sweetness and keep it forever.
How did you drive after that? I wouldn’t have been able to see…..
Now that was just the sweetest… :)
What a sweet boy. But their fears of being abandoned are heartbreaking, aren’t they?
The Riley story is very sweet, but I can’t stop laughing over the fact your BABY LOVES GAGA! Sounds like something my kids did at that age. :) I have a friend who’s 3 y/o’s favorite song was “My Humps”–LOL
That’s so sweet! Must be in the air because I had a similar conversation with my son yesterday, too.
Love that Dylan loves Gaga.
Awwww…..adorable picture, too!
Best.
Rileypic.
Evarrrr!
This was perfect. Thanks for sharing, Linda.
Best. Conversation. Ever.
Oh, that picture. When did he become a BOY and not a baby? And such a sweet, smart, and sensitive one, too. What a treasure!
Awwww…little boys are so sweet!
If it’s possible he gets cuter (and looks more like you) ever time you post a photo. SIGH.
*smile* you have amazing children and you are an amazing mom. And before you get all “oh gosh” on me. Just stop for a second and be still with your wise mind, take in the compliment, feel good about it and go on with your day:)
Print this post out and put it in his baby book so you can remember it always…this is so, so sweet.
That picture is your face. Ditto #1.
My 5 year old son told me that he doesn’t want all the “big people” to go to heaven before him. He wants us to wait on him but he knows we can’t because then we would be “WAY TOO OLD”. I love him to pieces.
best conversation EVER!
Beautiful, beautiful boy. Inside and out.
My kids are constantly asking what some random person walking down the street with a pineapple on his head is doing – like I’d know.
(I lied about the pineapple)
Lovely photo too!
Serrated, man, serrated freaking knife to the soul.
Okay, Riley is your spitting image in that photo! Such a cutie.
love that story–it brought tears to my eyes. I hope I’ll have a special Lady Gaga moment with my little boy some day ;-)