Shenanigans

Shenanigans

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Copycat!

This sibling rivalry thing is getting out of hand. Misha gets so upset when Nikolai get a diaper changed that one day recently, I just pulled him up on the couch, removed his shorts, un-velcro-ed his diaper, re-velcro-ed it, put his shorts back on and he was happy as a bug.

Misha gets jealous when I trim Nikolai's nails too. The funny thing is, when I get to Misha's nails, he doesn't even like getting them trimmed, but if Nikolai has them done....

Yesterday, I noticed an all NEW behavior. Nikolai, like all little kids is in a phase that he likes to swat you in the face if you get close. We are trying to teach him not to do it. So, yesterday, when he smacked Ira in the face, we said, "No-no, Nikolai, don't hit. Be nice. etc." And what does Misha do? He runs over and smacks Ira in the face. Earlier I had been playing the guitar while sitting on the floor. Nikolai had crawled over and was hampering my attempts to play by putting his hands on the strings. No sooner had I told him not to and removed his hands, Misha was there putting BOTH his hands on the strings.

I have yet to use this to my advantage. I really need to try the bed time thing. I am also thinking that it's time to potty train Nikolai.

3 comments:

Natalie J said...

I love sibling rivalry! It makes me sooooo happy!

Melanie said...

He He He He He. If it were anyone but Misha it would be totally crappy but since it's him....well, it's all okay.

:)

Julie and Jason said...

This post makes me laugh! We have 4 kids and have used sibling rivalry many times with the older 3! I can't wait to see how it all works on Miss Lily and how much she is going to get away with - she is after all the baby of the 4...the baby always gets away with more!