Our Girl Who Loves to Hug

It all started a few months ago when Adeline and I were sitting at the table eating lunch. She hurt her hand when she accidentally hit it on the table. She then kissed her hand, told it "I lu you" and hugged it. Absolutely precious! Since then she wants to hug just about everything. She tries to hug her cousins and friends even after they've had one too many hugs and are trying to push her away. She hugs and kisses her family including her baby sister, stuffed animals, her "baby" and blanket, objects in her books, and anything that was dropped and could potentially be hurt. She even "tries" to hug the snowman that is no longer in our yard (and really only lasted one night), characters on tv, and birds and other animals she sees outside when she's inside.

Well, we were having a thunderstorm Wednesday morning and she was a little startled when she first heard the thunder. After I told her it was ok and there was nothing to worry about, she held out her arms to the air, said "Huuuggg," gave a kiss to the thunder, and told it she loved it! After that, every time there was thunder she would reach her hands up to the sky and say "Huuuuggg!" Needless to say, it melted our hearts!