Monday | August 11, 2008
Sibling Rivalry
I've been working with a really nice client for a couple of weeks now. It's one of those situations where we kind of hit it off from the beginning, so while we've been working she has shared a little bit about her life with me. She and her husband have three children, and here's how it happened:
They had one... a boy. It went well. Two years later, they decided they'd have a second. Nine months later they had twin girls. I will just go on and admit it now - this is one of my worst nightmares, and one that the universe will likely bestow upon me because I truly am terrified of it happening, kind of like bees stinging you because you're afraid of them. I've long thought I'm only good for one child, maybe two, but three? No. As good as she is with them now, my client felt the same way.
Anyway, her kids are actually pretty good, and believe me, I'd tell you if they weren't. I see more than my fair share of bad ones when I'm visiting people's houses. The girls, now five, look, act, and talk almost exactly like Drew Barrymore in E.T., which makes them adorable even when they're screaming and arguing. Today's fight was about sharing toys:
Girl 1: Give me that Tinker Toy. I need it for this.
Girl 2: I had it first.
Girl 1: You ALWAYS get it first.
Girl 2: Zachary broke them all anyways. This one is broken, and so is this one.
Girl 1: Mom, you know what I'm gonna ask Santa for this year?
Mom: What?
Girl 1: My OWN set of Tinker Toys. Zachary always breaks the ones we're a'sposta be sharing.
Zachary: If you don't stop talking about it, I'm going to break a lot more than the Tinker Toys.
I started laughing out loud right there. And you know what? Their mom did, too.
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