Best of Friends

and worst of enemies!  What is it about siblings?  I know it's not just mine, as all my friends with multiple children tell me that it's basically the same story, different house.  Before dinner there was whining, crying, yelling, screaming, and no getting along whatsoever.  Once dinner was on the table, the story changed, as quick as the flip of a coin.  Ryan was the daddy and Kaity was the baby.  He is trying to feed her dinner via the train method. They finish up and move on.  Roll reversal.  Now Kaitlyn is the mommy and Ryan is the baby.  She carries him to the bathroom, brushes his teeth, and gets him ready for bed.  She tucks him in and gets him a book.  When I ask if I can read to him or if he wants Kaitlyn to, he choses her.  I sit in the quiet living room surrounded by laundry I am trying to ignore until they are asleep and enjoy a glass of wine and the sound of my children playing pretend and giving me a "night off."  It warms my heart when Kaitlyn is so sweet and kind to him.  And I know it makes him feel so special too, as he wants to be just like her.

As I sit here typing this, they start getting silly, as Ryan isn't into his pjs yet, even though I thought he was.  She is changing his "stinky diaper" and putting pjs on him.  I am thinking I may have to intervene, but just as I start to think about putting the computer down and getting up, she tucks him back in bed and starts reading him another book.  So sweet.  This often happens right before bed, when they are supposed to be going to sleep or during quiet time.  It makes it so hard for me to split them up when they are playing so nicely together.  I think it might be a kid conspiracy.  :)  Gotta run and smooch on my kids.  They're saying prayers together and there is NO WAY I'm gonna let them make me miss out on snuggle time and kisses.  :)

Her Daddy's Girl

It's 50* and raining here today and Kaitlyn is at the table doing her schoolwork, singing praises about spring.  She is dressed in a short sleeved dress and flip flops, declaring through song that she will be wearing short sleeves and flip flops until fall.  Who can argue with that?  I told her it may be cold when we left the house and she might want to grab a sweater just in case.  She told me she didn't need one, it was spring and she was wearing short sleeves.  We walked out of the apartment and she said her arms were cold.  When asked if she wanted to go back in and grab a sweater she refused.  Even though she was cold in the elevator and the car, she refused to put anything on over her short sleeves and there was NO WAY she was going to trade in those flops, no matter how cold her little piggies got!  Just out of principle.  Sound like anyone you know?  I'll give you a hint...he's tall, dark, and handsome and is in shorts and flops as long as the temperature is above 49*.

Lady Gaga and Show Tunes

A couple of cute Ryanisms for ya.  Yesterday, we were at the table finishing up dinner and the kids were talking about ways they can show kindness.  One of the ways was by sharing their toys.  Ryan said he would share his toys with boys and his sister.  She asked about girls that he knew.  He said he would share with them too.  Kaity asked for him to name the girls he knew that he would want to share his toys with.  He named, Aspen, Caroline, Ms. Brooke (his babysitter), and Lady Gaga.  Bill was getting something out of the refrigerator and turned around to ask who he named last.  He repeated Lady Gaga and Bill asked him, with an unique expression on his face, if he said Lady Gaga.  He replied yes and threw his head back laughing.  Silly guy!

Today, we were driving in the car on the way to Girl Scouts practicing Kaitlyn's spelling words and Ryan's speech words.  It was Kaitlyn's turn to spell a word from her spelling list and I asked her to spell tomorrow.  She starts spelling, and Ryan proceeds to bust into song.  "Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow..." and then, because he couldn't remember the rest of the lyrics, he closed with a few lines from Jesus Loves Me.  After we dropped Kaity off at Girl Scouts, Ryan got into her lip gloss.  Lip gloss and show tunes...should we be concerned?  ;}