Little Man

"Oh! My shoes!" exclaims Gabriel as he sees them on the kitchen floor. "I put on. My shoes!"

"Are you putting your shoes on?" asks Mommy as she eyes him from her kitchen chair.

"Yeah. I go. To. Chuch! (church)"

"You're going to church? Honey, there isn't any church today."

"I go. To. Wok. (work)"

Mommy grins at him. "You're going to work, huh?"

"Yeah. I go to wok." He shuffles past her busily, with unfastened sandles. He pauses with a brief thought. "Luff you!"

Laugh. "I love you, too, Gabriel! Very, very much."

Almost out of the kitchen, his hand goes to his waist. "I got. My. Telwefone." And shuffles on out.

What a little buddy.