I heard a little voice calling “mommy, where are you?” about 4am in the morning.
“I am here”, I murmured.
Ivan’s bed is only right in front of ours. I crawled to check on him. Usually he will say he wants water or milk or he probably has dreams.
“I love you mommy”, he uttered.
My heart melt, “I love you too darling”, I replied. I went to the loo and check on him again later, he was fast asleep. I adored looking at his sleepy face, looks just like the father when he sleeps.
“I love you” is a rare word I used with my Chinese educated parents. I reckon it is due to their conservativeness, I was not raise to say I love you; instead, we used action to show our love to our dear parents. I remembered I had to attend a 3-day motivational course by Ernest Wong back in college. After getting to know the real me, I changed. I started to show more love to my parents. I seize every father’s or mother’s day to express my love in words to them. A simple “爸妈，我爱你。” (Mom & dad, I love you).
Hehe, they may be shy, but looking at how careful they keep those cards, I know deep down their hearts, they love it.
I just hope that Ivan won’t stop telling us he loves us. 
March 27th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
So loving!!!
March 27th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
SO SWEET of Ivan…
MUACKS!
March 27th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
The 3 little words has so much impact on us….
Mummy, u must be very touched then… did you go back to sleep??
March 27th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
wuah. So nice..mebbe he dreamt of u ler
March 27th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Wuahhh… so lummmm
March 28th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Hehe…I am sure u guys will be lum too if ur little one said that three letter words to you.
March 29th, 2007 at 8:22 am
aawww…. so sweet. oscar will say these 3 magic words all the time… and louder when he knows he is in trouble! hehe…
March 29th, 2007 at 9:43 am
hehe, hi Ally, since i do not have a husband or a kid yet! “I love u” from boyfriend’s mouth is good enough!!
but if Ivan is like my little cousin , u’ll find the 3 words meaningless as she says “i love u” to everyone! including strangers!!
March 29th, 2007 at 11:40 am
So sweet..
It’s so beautiful when kids say I love you just out of the blue.. you know its coming from their heart!
March 29th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
So sweet..
I never said “i love you” to my parents….emm..your post make me pondering now..
p/s: luckily you told me your new URL, hehe…if not i still blurblur to load your blogspot’s page.
March 29th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
In cards? Not saying it?
Your BB ah.. really know how to steal your heart.. Sure very good in ‘kao’ girls later one.
March 29th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
awwwww so sweet..i sure melt gau gau! my son will say it out of the blue sometimes…very rare la…kakaka..yup me too not brought up in such loving environment too..so hard to say i love u…..so i say that to my kids all the time!
March 30th, 2007 at 12:08 am
So sweet and so loving la…
btw, i tagged you…
March 30th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
so sweet … my kids say that all the time too. Makes you forget all the naughty things that they’ve done!
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:40 am
Saying I.L.U to whom you really love is a sweet thing to say.
I too love hearing my son tell me so.
Sometime, my boy woke up middle of the night with no reason, he tell me I.L.U just to assure I am in the bedroom beside him. I get upsad when I am lack of sleep, and he woke me up….silly me!
April 5th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Yes, I love hearing those words from my children too and of coz hubby.
April 9th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
hello, I love u too! Muaq muaq kiss kiss. Kiss kiss Ivan too!