Speaking as the youngest of four, I know that siblings can be really fun or really obnoxious. I love them all, but being the youngest I often was picked on, hung upside down and chased around so much that it became quite normal for me to be picked on. I’m trying to keep this in mind now as I am encountering sibling relationships at a different angle. I watch Luke and our baby girl get along great when they are hiding things around the house. I also see them scream/cry at each other when the other takes something or does something the other doesn’t like.
A great example of this happened just today. I was getting lunch ready when our baby girl came in the kitchen, I told her to get in her chair. (She is about to crawl up and put herself in her booster seat, which is so great). I went back to putting the finishing touches on lunch when I hear our girl scream/cry and I look and she is trying to push Luke away. So I went over and told Luke to leave her alone, and even moved him to the opposite side of the kitchen. I went back to getting lunch ready and I hear another scream/cry, and I look…and there she is trying to push Luke away again! I think Luke was being a big brother and either trying to bully away her chair or try to help her up….which she didn’t want. Finally, I just grabbed our baby girl and put her in her chair…then Luke started his scream/cry…so I put him in his chair too. It was finally quiet and I was able to finish cutting up the chicken for lunch.
But one of the funniest things I’ve seen happen between the two kids happened about a week ago. I had given our baby girl a small bowl with Club mini crackers earlier in the day. Usually she does fine and keeps the crackers to herself or sometimes she’ll even hand one at a time to Luke in order to share them. Which is really sweet to watch by the way…except when Luke decides to throw the cracker after it has been given to him.
Anyway, on this particular day, I come in the living room and check on the kids and what do I find? They are laughing, like they like to do…only when I focused in on what was happening, I had to laugh too. Our baby girl was giving her brother crackers, only instead of handing them over she was putting them down the back of his shirt! I was so funny. I had to put a stop to it though. When I changed Luke’s diaper later before his nap, guess what I found? Yep…a mini cracker! Silly kids!
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