Posted On: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 10:06 am
My 18 month old daughter has a few words now. Mostly these words have come from her big brother.
As soon as I collect Leo from daycare, around five o’ clock, I get both he and his sister, Roma, in the bath. I give them a wash and let them splash around and play for awhile. At this point I might make a quick dash to the kitchen to make sure the dinner isn’t burning and then dash back to give Roma her countdown time to getting out of the tub.
Lately, Roma has started to tell me that she hasn’t finished eating the bubbles or drinking the bath water from one of the plastic toys. I walk in to tell her it’s time to get out and she extends her arm out and shows me the palm of her hand shouting “Stop.” It is quite funny to see the expression on her face too. Can you believe that this little person is ordering me a grown adult out of the bathroom. This along with other quirky remarks have definitely come from her brother.
This morning at 6.55 am, Leo called out “daddy” from his and Roma’s shared room. He kept calling it out. This woke Adam up. I had woken about 10 minutes before hand. The next thing we heard was this tinier little voice mimicking what she had just heard, “daddy.” She said this over again and over again so we had the voice of Leo and then the echo to follow. Adam and I listened to this laughing.
The two of them have mini battles with struggles for toys mostly but tonight’s argument was over something else.
While eating dinner ¬†the feud began as to who would get the light blue cup or the dark blue cup. Leo wanted the light blue one. Roma wanted the light blue cup too. Actually, Roma had the light one first and when Leo said that was the one he wanted Roma held it tightly to her chest and screamed “mine” each and every time Leo complained for the cup. This episode went on for awhile.
All Adam and I wanted to do was laugh but we couldn’t, well not straight away. We had a little chuckle once they were watching TV. They were sat close together. The best of friends for the time being, anyway.
Tags: brother, friends, funny, kids, laugh, play, words
Categories: The kids
