Brothers and Sisters.....

My son amazes me every day. I should not be surprised. When my daughter was the same age she amazed me as well. She still amazes me. But I guess after parenting one child I would have figured I had seen everything. Apparently not. And judging by the way things have gone I am in for a lot more in the years to come.

I was sitting at my mother's house waiting for a call from my sister and I decided to give Alex a snack. So I set him in his high chair and gave him a handful of Corn Chex. This is one of his favorite snacks and he immediately started to devour the cereal. I went back to the couch to sit down. A few minutes later mom looked over and said "I think Alex is sleeping..."

Sure enough my little man was hunched over in his high chair, sound asleep. I was astounded. It did not look like a comfortable position to be sleeping in to say the least. I was able to pick him up out of his high chair and put him down in his play pen where he proceeded to nap for almost two hours. I guess he was a tired little man.

When I was pregnant Aeryn was very excited about the prospect of having a brother or a sister. She had been looking forward to a sister more than a brother but was happy enough with Alex. However, during this time she did not think that there was anything that her new brother or sister could do that would make her angry. She figured she would love him every second of every day. I tried to sit her down and tell her that there would be times that she would not like her brother very much, but that that was okay.  She did not believe me.

Needless to say, she is now realizing that I was right after all. Alex has become quite the trouble maker. He is not mean or malicious. He just loves his sister so much that he thinks she needs to pay attention to him all the time. When she is not paying attention he is more than happy to pull her hair, or hit her with one of his toys to get her attention back. This becomes slightly bothersome to Aeryn. He also does not say the words that she wants him to say when she wants him to say them. He is already saying Aeryn, and Sissy, but he always manages to say them when she is not paying attention.

Oi, such is another adventure. But I would not trade my life with my kids for anything.