In Case You Were Wondering...

This is the face of mischief.

Can You Feel the Love Tonight?

Scene: Our living room. Anna has an old broken cell phone of Oliver's. Clara wants said cell phone and has been told she needs to wait her turn. This displeases Clara in the extreme. A tantrum fails to sway Mom. Time to explore more deceptive tactics.

Clara: Anna, put your phone in here. (opens end table drawer)
Anna: (ignores Clara)
Clara: Anna, please come put your phone in here. (gestures to open drawer)
Anna: (ignores Clara)
Mom: (quietly laughing) Clara, why do you want Anna to put the phone there?
Clara: So I can reach it easily.
Mom: You need to be patient and wait until Anna is done with her turn. Please come here so I can brush your hair.
Clara: No! No! NO, I want the phone! (tantrum, tantrum, tantrum)
Mom: You can hold the brush. (Hands Clara the brush)
Clara: (throws brush on the ground) NO!

Anna comes over to retrieve said hairbrush. She now has both the hairbrush and the coveted cell phone.

Clara: ***SCREAM*** (grabs the brush from Anna)
Anna: ***SCREAM*** (whacks Clara three times in the head with the cell phone)

Mom: Oy.

Silliness

(I'll get back to vacation posts soon, really.)

Clara and Anna have been sharing a bedroom for about six months or so now. After a rough couple of nights at the beginning, they've done remarkably well together. Anna is usually out within minutes of being placed in the crib, even if Clara is taking her sweet time falling asleep. And by falling asleep I mean singing (loudly), talking (loudly), and banging her feet on the walls (loudly). We don't like going back in to try to get her to stop, since oddly the sound of the door opening is one of the few things that will almost certainly wake Anna back up. So we usually ignore it and eventually Clara stops and falls asleep.

Last night, though, the noises coming from the room were different. Normal Clara noises, yes, but also quite a bit of Anna-babble. Not normal. We waited a few minutes to see if Anna would settle down, but it soon progressed to much loud laughter and hilarity from both. I went back to investigate and as I opened the door I saw Clara crawling under Anna's crib. Neither of them noticed me so I stopped to watch for a minute. Anna was busy dropping her pacifier between the crib and dresser over and over, while Clara fished it out from under the crib over and over. Both thought this was the funniest thing ever. Once Clara realized I was there, rather than run over and hop into bed, she crawled all the way under the crib to hide.

It's fun to see them start to play together; Anna is only just leaving babyhood behind, so until now she hasn't been much of a fun playmate for Clara. Now, though...now I fear what the future holds. In a good way.