We're sitting around the breakfast table trying to decide where to put a Christmas tree in our new house.
I suggest in front of the living-room window.
Nick offers, as a back-up, behind the baby-gate to the under-construction-some-day-master-bedroom, just in case Olive tries to pull it down in her quest to eat the ornaments and lights.
Elias says: "Yeah, we don't want that sister thing to get into it."
That sister thing.
Can you feel the brotherly love?
That is very funny!
Posted by: nerissa | 12/09/2010 at 02:45 AM
I'm on Elias' side on this one! I'm 45 and still think that way about my siblings! One sister thing moved to Alaska and won't move back, the other sister thing can drive me just as crazy now as she has for the last 43 yrs! And our brother thing is too much to describe! Could be Elias is wise beyond his years, his experience with a sister thing has just begun!
Posted by: Kelly O. | 12/09/2010 at 06:59 AM
LOL!!!!
Posted by: Jessica | 12/09/2010 at 07:49 AM
hahahahahahahahahaha
Posted by: Faye | 12/09/2010 at 11:06 AM
Elias is a bright boy...I am certain Mason would refer to his brother the same way..."That brother thing". Elias rocks!
Posted by: Shelley | 12/10/2010 at 05:49 AM
Wow- I am now, due to Elias's brilliant words- going to call my oldest sibling- that brother thing. Love it. It is so fitting and perfect- I can't wait to share it with my sister thing.
Keep writing!!!
Posted by: Noel Dennehy | 12/10/2010 at 04:49 PM
Hilarious. Similar to my brother staring into the hospital nursery area when I was born, pointing out a baby, and asking "is that one ours?" Sort of like picking out a steak at the butchers.
Posted by: Sarah | 12/12/2010 at 05:01 PM
If it makes you feel any better, when I was born I already had a 2 year old sister. My dad, who you know, probably should have known better, turned to my mom and said (about my newborn, red face), "Yea, don't worry, the other one got better too." So I'm pretty sure that from now on I will refer to my Dad as the "parent thing" and just make him wonder. :)
Posted by: JenniferB | 12/12/2010 at 07:34 PM
Oh your stories help, they remind me that siblings are challenging no matter what and that we all, even parent things, need time to adapt!
Posted by: Christy | 12/12/2010 at 10:36 PM
Perfect word choice!
Posted by: Kyla | 12/15/2010 at 02:00 PM