Theo learns to hug

A picture wouldn't do it justice. He gives it all his strength and squeezes your neck with those short arms.

It used to be that when you said, "Theo, give me a hug", he would let you do all the hugging. Now he's an active participant. He knows that somebody loves him and he wants to give some of that love back.

In the same vein he's started to say spontaneously that he loves us, or that I'm his "nice dad". He especially says that "Ruby is my nice baby." Just when I thought he couldn't get cuter, he pulls out all the stops.