Children between the ages of one and two love to say hello and goodbye -- to everything. Here are a few things Sage has either greeted or bid adieu to lately:
• The beep that the door makes at her daycare when you use your key card to get in: "Bye beep."
• Dave, whom she also calls "Beep," after our first visit with him on SKYPE: "Bye Beep."
• A fire in our fireplace: "Hi hot."
This reminds me of Evan at a year and a half, when he would say "bye bye" both to things that were going away and to things he hoped would go away. Once when I pulled him, kicking and crying, out of a bath he didn't want to leave, he screamed out through tears, "BYE BYE BUBBLES!" Then there was this famous dinner-time exchange:
Evan (in his highchair, with rice on his tray): "Bye bye, wice."
Eric: "No, Evan, your rice isn't going anywhere. You eat your rice."
*pause*
Evan: "Bye bye, Daddy."
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