“Ba-bye!” I waved at Maddy.
She instantly got it: we were leaving. “NO!!!” and she turned away as she wailed it, trying to make it not be so. (She is, for another few months yet, two.)
Me too, little one, me, too. But she definitely had me smiling all the way home.
After we landed, my phone buzzed an incoming text: photos, of two little boys who had fallen into bed after a fun, long day.
And both of them had their pumpkin hats on their heads as they snoozed.