Brother

Gwenchik was visiting Max in the hospital.
Gwen: Oh, he is so, so cute! You can love him MORE than me now that I see him.

Appreciation notes

We have had a few scandals lately with Gwenchik, and it just seems harder and harder to communicate with her (and she is just 7!!!). Than she got really sick last night, so I spent the night comforting her and in the morning I sent her off to watch a cartoon, so that I can get at least an hour or two of sleep.

After I woke up, as I was coming down the stairs I noticed yellow sticky notes all over the stairwell:

"you are the best Mom", "you take care of me so well", "I love you".... she spent most of that hour writing these notes.

Sex

Gwenchik was telling me how her day went.

Gwen: Brandon, the boy who wants sex with me...

Me: WHAT? What sex?

Gwen: The regular one.

Me: What is sex? Regular at that?

Gwen: You are an adult and you do not know???

Me: Not really.

Gwen: Well, it is love.

Me: I think love and sex are two different things, that is why there are two different words; though often sex is an expression of love.

Gwen: You see, now you learning....

Love, family

Gwenchik is counting days until her uncle is coming for Thanksgiving. She has been having problems with pronouncing "rrr" and has been practicing daily.

Gwen: He can listen to my new "rrrrrr" sound and play the game "set" with me! Oh, Mommy I love you and Daddy and uncle so much!! Actually all my uncles!

....

Oh, the precious moments

Geography lesson

I am tucking Gwenchik in bed.

Gwen: You are the best Mom in the whole world! No better, in the whole America! America is bigger than the whole world, right?

Love

From Veronika
Gwen: I love you grandma, but I do not love my uncle.
A minute later...
Gwen: I love my uncle, but not my grandma
Veronika: Why is that?
Gwen: I can only love one person at a time...

True love

From George
Gwen is sitting on the potty, and is taken with a surfeit of emotion.
Gwen: I love you, Papa!
George: Thank you! I love you too!
Gwen: And I love Mama!
George: That's great, I'll tell her and she will be very happy!
Gwen: And I love my grandmothers and grandfathers!
George:That's great too! I'll tell them!
Gwen: And I love our cats!
George: That's nice.
Gwen: And I love my toy sheep! And my toy duck!
George: Um...
Gwen: And I love my toilet paper!

Kindness

I have been quite sick for the last several days with a fever running around 102.5, so Gwenchik was not really allowed near me for the fear of her catching the virus. So runs upstairs, covers me with her blue favorite cap and says:
Gwen: Mom, it will help. It will make you feel better! Don't you think that I am so kind?
Then runs downstairs.
......
Next day she drew me a lovely get well card :)

Sharing the love

Gwen: Mom, I love you so much! You can have my half!
Me: Who will have the other half
Gwen: You too
Me: What about Dad?
Gwen: Ok, Dad can have another half, but than I have to give something to my grandmother and grandfather and all the uncles. And there are no more halves left.
Me: Are there more than two halves?
Gwen: Silly mom. There are only two halves. But I will give you a leg, and other to papa, right arm to grandmother, left one to grandfather.....