Every night, right before he goes to bed, Zev gets a full body massage (lucky him). Its nothing too fancy – 5 minutes or so where we talk about our day and connect before he goes to sleep. His job has always been to hold the massage oil bottle.
Zev and I were cleaning up his toys in his room today when he spied his bottle of massage oil. He grabbed it and handed it to me. I thought he was helping me clean up, so I put it on the low shelf where I keep it. He looked at me and pointed at the oil, and went over to it and grabbed it again and handed it to me. Being dense, I still didn’t get what was going on, so I put it away again. He took it a 3rd time, laid down on his mat, and held onto the oil, all while looking at me. I couldn’t believe he was asking me for a massage! It made me really happy that I have kept up with his daily routine, and that he obviously enjoys his massage.
So I gave him a massage. When I was done, he just lay there on the mat very quiet and calm and let me dress him with no fussing. Then he crawled over to his bed and climbed on and took a nap. Pure heaven.