My daughter loves me!!

How do I know??? Well, I just figured it out this evening. When it is just her and I she is sooo sweet, giving me the biggest, cutest smiles I have ever seen. So of course when friends and family come to visit, I want to show her off, I will pull out all the stops to try to get her to do the really BIG smiles and coos and babbles. But No, she never performs like I want her too. I always tell everyone, "No, really, it is sooo cute- you have to see this..." and nothing. I realized tonight as my non-performing daughter was meeting a college friend of mine for the first time, that those smiles and coos and babbles are not meant for anyone else. They are meant only for me and her. Our special time. They are not for Daddy to see, or Grandma or Grandpa, or anyone else. And I have to deal with that. I swear sometimes, we just look in each other's eyes, and slowly this smile creeps on Maddie's face. Then we both kinda laugh. It is like we have this inside joke somewhere, a bond that already only her and I can witness and understand. I feel like the luckiest person in the world.