my little girl

So we have had a  sad couple of days with Amos (one of the dogs I take care of) dying on Wednesday and then walking the dogies without him. But i have to share a little anecdote of Lilja through this all. On Wednesday, i found out they were putting Amos to sleep during dinner time. It was just Lilja and I as Aran was doing his ute language class..i started crying and Lilja asked why I was sad. I told her Amos died. She proceded to fall to the ground and pretend to dive.. Momma, is he diving like this??  Hmmm How to explain this to a three year old. We finally talked about Amos going to heaven and that he was now a spook ( a ghost) and that he was running and playing up there and watching over us. Well the evening went on and texts came back and forth from caroline and Jeff ( amos's owners) and the details came out, so I got more worked up and sad. Lilja was trying to get some attention, because I was not giving it to her and at a certain point I asked her to give me some space..Lilja stood right next to me and asked me " Momma is this enough space" well i was not paying attention and told her.. lilja I am really upset, can you go play in your room so momma can get some space and get herself together... so here it comes.... My little love..... she walked up to me , put her hand on my knee, looked at me with this little face of knowledge and said" Momma i think this is enough space".. and stood there looking at me with her hand on my knee. I just wrapped her up and snuggled up this little empathetic three year old.. and she gave me this huge hug. how did she know I needed that..