I have been there...

Day 9: Picture yourself at your child's age.  Try to remember how you felt.

Well... this doesn't work for me.  I don't remember being 1 so I can't relate to Little miss.  My only real memory of being 4 is that I got a bottle out for my new brother and squirted it out on my wrist, I had seen my mom do the same, and then gave "tested" bottle to my mom.  I do know from being told that I loved my little brother, was very imaginative (many imaginary friends), and a little hard headed!

G man loves his sister so much.  He will take up for her, make us go and get her out of her crib at the smallest whimper she makes, he makes sure that she gets the same amount of food that he does, whether she can have it or not, and always wants to play with her!  We as his parents love this!  My husband and I were both first borns and were VERY hateful and hurtful to our younger siblings.  (I am sure both of them will attest to this.)  It is our prayer that they will continue to love each other like they do now and continue to play together!

  He loves to dress up as superheroes or ninja and save the house, he pretends he is one of the dragons from Dragon Tales, and he can beat up a Megatron that I almost woke up!!  Needless to say he is just as imaginative!  When my family tells me about how I would make-up stories that would last hours and hours on long trips, or that they had to go to the clinic to pick up some injured imaginary friends I thought it was wonderful!  Now that I have an imaginative child I know how EXHAUSTING that can be!!  We are constantly having to fight off bad guys or tip toe around the house.  However exhausting it can be it is more fun to make memories this way!

Now for the hard headed part... he did get that!  He will argue over anything and he uses every part of his body language to say what little he was holding back!!  I did... I mean I do the same thing!!  I try very hard to explain to him that emotion won't get you what you want.  Have you ever tried to reason with a 4 yr. old!!!  We will still work on this!!  He is my son through and through and we are so lucky to have a loving, imaginative, hardheaded little boy!!   We can't wait for Little miss to show us more about her personality!