On one hand, it's adorable that Mila is making it her job to say "I love you." She says it morning, noon, and night at all kinds of random times. She says it to break the silence. She says it when she does something that might be construed as illegal, I suppose as a way to imply that punishment would be dumb because obviously. She says it when she's being good.
She says it A LOT.
On the other hand, OMG she is a broken record. She uses the phrase as a weapon of mass destruction. She fully expects that you will return fire. If you don't respond with "I love you too, Mila," YOU ARE IN TROUBLE. She'll keep repeating herself and kindly nagging you that you better say it too OR ELSE.
It's a test. Are you paying attention when she talks to you? She's being cute. Are you acknowledging the cute? ARE YOU LISTENING? HUH? ARE YOU?
Alexis and I are both about done with this phase. Yes, it's cute, but it's annoying as well. While we know there are worse ways to be annoying, our patience is running thin. Alexis is in worse shape than me. In fact, during the ride to gymnastics, Mila threw out her line about 236249624 times. She lobbed every test at Alexis and waited about a millisecond before nagging her sister to LISTEN, GAH.
Alexis wasn't listening. Well, she was, but she was refusing to give Mila the satisfaction of knowing she was listening. Thus, she was silent.
So Mila kept saying it.
They went on and on for a while, Alexis immersed in silence while Mila filled every breath with words. Finally, Alexis blurted out, "YOU ARE SO ANNOYING, MILA. Stop it!"
Mila smiled then replied, "I know. Being annoying is my power!"
That's going to be a problem, y'all. HAAAALPPPPP.
