Unlisted: He already knows everything

I originally wrote this about a month ago after getting up at four in the morning and getting this look from Indio. It resonated enough that I put him back to bed and came straight to the computer to write this up.

There is a look my son sometimes gives me that catches me off guard. It is a somber, piercing look - as if he can see right through me and is sizing me up. In my mind, he already knows everything about me from this look: he knows I am reading books on parenting and making things up as I go; he knows that sometimes I take the easy route (rather than the right route) with him; he knows I sometimes make mistakes. But, at the end of all this, he still climbs into my lap to cuddle when he's tired, he still flashes me his grin when I come to rescue him from his car seat and he still seems to squeal with delight when I pick him up at the end of the day. That's love.