Over the course of the three years since the boys came home, they have met and passed many milestones. One of those surfaced in technicolor this holiday week-end. All 5 kids were in the house for extended periods of time. It allowed them to interact with one another in ways that brief visits on week-ends and an hour or two here and there don't touch. Bicker, joke, argue, joke...repeat...you get the idea.
It was hectic here, Thanksgiving, family pictures, birthday and Christmas decorating all in the span of 4 days. Lots of together time. Lucas and Eli are getting better at giving themselves breaks when they get too overstimulated and need some down time. Only one melt down this week-end, I count that successful.
Something that was new to the family dynamics this holiday was that both boys have developed this sense of appropriate spontaneity in humor, interactions, behavior and did I mention humor? At one point Alison turned around after being verbally zinged by Eli with such a shocked expression it was hilarious. She asked, "Where did this kid come from?" "Where is he learning to talk like that?" Not inappropriately by any means, just verbally holding his ground in a humorous conversation with the sister that can talk her way into and out of anything.
I hate to tell the girls...their brothers have had them and their dynamics under close study for the past 3 years and spontaneous humor is only the tip of the iceberg to things they have mastered. Beware!
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