Brothers and sisters and playmates.
I don't have a brother. Katie and I played quite a lot, when we weren't fighting or trying to assert who was older.
Asher and Liam, though, are fast friends. They are serious playmates. There is lots of giddy rioutous fun in the house when they are together. They are two years apart, which I might have guessed would limit their enjoyment of each other. If I leave them together, there will of course be some fighting over who gets to hold a toy. More of the time, though, they are laughing hysterically as they run around the house shouting, "Blast Off!" or for some reason that escapes me but is apparently perfectly logical to preschoolers, "Lingo!" Liam looks a little sullen in the morning until Asher wakes up. He will sometimes try to be loud down stairs to force him to come down stairs. At the Living History Farms today, the younger three stayed in the triple stroller while Asher walked. I let Indy and Liam out at the end because we had time to run, and Asher and Liam were off like a shot running from tree to tree laughing hysterically about something again indecipherable to me.
It is a joy to see the my kids so enamored with each other's attention and play. They try to include Indy too, some of the time, but it is clear that she is interested in other things, and her language and running ability usually leaves her behind in the games. She prefers to come to me and tell me about the stickers she has found, or the drink she has concocted in the kitchen and is carrying in the fire extinguisher with captain hook's hook for a straw.
The point of the post is this, I wanted to remember how much fun Asher and Liam have as two and four year olds. They are fast companions and playmates. They have great fun together, and that is a joy for a parent to see.
Asher and Liam, though, are fast friends. They are serious playmates. There is lots of giddy rioutous fun in the house when they are together. They are two years apart, which I might have guessed would limit their enjoyment of each other. If I leave them together, there will of course be some fighting over who gets to hold a toy. More of the time, though, they are laughing hysterically as they run around the house shouting, "Blast Off!" or for some reason that escapes me but is apparently perfectly logical to preschoolers, "Lingo!" Liam looks a little sullen in the morning until Asher wakes up. He will sometimes try to be loud down stairs to force him to come down stairs. At the Living History Farms today, the younger three stayed in the triple stroller while Asher walked. I let Indy and Liam out at the end because we had time to run, and Asher and Liam were off like a shot running from tree to tree laughing hysterically about something again indecipherable to me.
It is a joy to see the my kids so enamored with each other's attention and play. They try to include Indy too, some of the time, but it is clear that she is interested in other things, and her language and running ability usually leaves her behind in the games. She prefers to come to me and tell me about the stickers she has found, or the drink she has concocted in the kitchen and is carrying in the fire extinguisher with captain hook's hook for a straw.
The point of the post is this, I wanted to remember how much fun Asher and Liam have as two and four year olds. They are fast companions and playmates. They have great fun together, and that is a joy for a parent to see.
