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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Having Two Kids

As my younger son (YS) has gotten older, he and my older son (OS) play more and more together. They honestly seem to enjoy being together. For the most part anyway. Yesterday OS asked if he could play Hungry Hungry Hippos with his brother. This game has previously been banned while YS is awake because of my concern that he might probably swallow one of those tiny white marbles. Remember the paper clip incident? (What's most amazing about that incident is that the x-ray didn't find a variety of other items that he has swallowed.) My little goat.

Because I was going to be right there, and more importantly because YS hasn't tried to swallow anything since the paper clip incident to the best of my knowledge, I consented. The game was fabulous. YS was thrilled to play it, but of course he is too young to understand the game and follow the directions. OS wasn't bothered by this at all. One of his favorite ways to interact with his brother is by being super bossy. He took great delight in repeatedly telling YS what to do. I felt a sense of pride. I remembered other moms saying that you look at your kids playing together and think "I created this." I started to get all warm and fuzzy inside. Visions of the Big Giraffe and me snuggled together while my kids played board game in our cozy living room with our imaginary fireplace danced through my head. Then the boys started to pelt each other with the hippo food. Those little white balls were flying everywhere, and there was a lot of screaming and crying. Guess what flashed into my mind? "I created this".

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: If you wanna win the game you've gotta take good aim and get the most marbles with your hippo.

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