Same Game, Different Kids

For years, when my older boys were small, I would play this little love game with them...

Me: I love you!
Kid: I love you too.
Me: I love you more...
Kid: I love YOU more...
and on and on and on until it got boring.

Funny how different kids can be.

Kid Two was challenging at times (to put it oh-so-mildly). One time after I exercised the discipline of "laying on hands" while I "trained him in the way he should go" I tried the Love Game on him. It went like this:

Me: I love you.
Kid Two: love you too
Me: I love you more...
Kid Two: (...if looks could kill...) You probably do.

Huh.

Just this week I played it with Kid Three, who is generally very agreeable and so easy going. EASY (for now, anyway.) This was his exchange after he tested the lines just a wee little bit:

Me: I love you baby.
Kid Three: I yuv you mommy
Me: I love you more, more, more!
Kid Three: (hesitant) ...Ah-wight.

Same game, different kids. I love the variety of parenting.