Love of Language

I sit at the computer and hear the sound of a busy classroom behind my daughter's bedroom door.
"Your turn now, Spencer," she says with authority, "Remember the rule: Share, care, be fair."
Another student must be acting up. I hear her say, "Stop!" in her big voice.
She gently nudges another to participate, and then giggles saying, "That's funny!"

I love her language; the expressions, the enthusiasm, the pronunciations of words like the color, "lello," and a repeating line from a story, "Hulp! hulp! Who can hulp?"
We were driving home from school and she spoke up from her car seat in the back, "Mom, I love you today."
I said, "Hannah, I love you today, too!"
She continued, "I love you to always, Mom."