I'll Have What He's Having (1-29-11)

Baby Ryan delights in grabbing things from, knocking things over built by, and crawling across creations of his big brother. Saturday morning was no different. I try not to intervene in every tussle, they will be at this for years I am sure, but once in a while I do step in.

The problem: Baby Ryan repeatedly attempts to invade Cash's stuffed animal stash hidden beneath the trampoline. The clincher is that Cash has also included all of Baby Ryan's stuffed animals in his cache. Now if you have read this Blog before you know several things about Baby. One, he does not give up easily, and two he can climb and get to pretty much anywhere. Saturday Baby had enough of big brother's hoarding and went in for the steal. Cash's solution is to lay down in front of the animals in a blocking maneuver. Watch Baby's sheer delight when he manages to get an animal from the compound.

Mom's solution: (in the spirit of King Solomon) "Cash if we can't share we will have to cut the stuffed animals in half so you each get the same amount.

Cash: Alright mom he can have 2 (note there something like 20 but oh well it is a start)

And so the day continued with Baby just not letting it go that Cash may have something he doesn't. (see below)

But, sharing his ice-cream was not on Cash's list of To-Do's for this day and he quickly finished the cone before brother could get a hold of it. Minutes later I caught this shot.

Kind of guessing brother isn't giving a kiss here.

Thank goodness Cash went off to gymnastics and the boys got some time apart. Later that day I enjoyed teaching Cash how to play Yahtzee Turbo. He had his own way of "rolling the dice" which was very literal. He took once dice at a time and rolled it with his finger until he got the side he wanted. He struggled at first to beat the timer so when he finally did it, he was so excited he burst out quite a victory dance. 

Part 2

All I can say is "Where did he learn that?"