Ever So Affectionate

A really heart-warming event happened in church today (or yesterday, given my predilection for working past the Cinderella hour).

There's this girl in church who's a month older than Joey (he's 20 months old now). For security reasons, I won't name her, but will give her the pseudonym of 'Audrey' (as in Hepburn - one of our fav actresses). Now typically 'Audrey' is quite affectionate with all her friends, and she tends to hug and kiss them when she sees them for the first time. But Joey is not quite the hug-and-kiss type - he usually cringes when 'Audrey' does her hug-and-kiss routine.

Today, however, a metamorphosis happened. 'Audrey' did her thing, and Layfong told Joey to 'kiss' her back. And so he did - right smack on her cheek. Big smiles broke out among the three mothers present. Ditto for me when Layfong told me about the 'incident'.

The whole evening after dinner, Joey and me were going 'Audrey, Audrey' and making big smooching sounds ...

Joey's also getting quite kissey with his parents. Before he sleeps, he'd let Mummy kiss him (more than once). For a long time, he teased his Daddy by screaming 'noooooooo!' and turning his face away whenever I said 'Daddy kiss Joey goodnite?'. In the past week, however, he'd decided to condescend (to his otherwise emotionally-scarred dad). And when I'm too far from him, he'd grab my neck so I'd be closer for him to peck me.

Now that's worth pretty priceless in the scale of things, don't u think :-)