My bubs are polar opposites too. Marisol loves her brother so much. She blows him kisses whenever he wakes up, she hugs him, she says ‘Finn here’ when she wants him to play with her. Flynn throws blocks and bottles at her head, tackles her to the ground and flat out ignores the kissy/huggy attention his sister bestows upon him. He loves to copy everything she does and play with everything she’s playing with. Thus the fighting ensues.

However as much as they fight, they do play well together too. They love to play hide ‘n seek and chase each other. Tonight after 10 minutes of Marisol trying to stack blocks, Flynn knocking them over, her crying and him throwing them at her I turned around and there they were taking it in turns to stack the blocks one on top of each other. The moment was fleeting b/c after stacking about 6 blocks each Flynn then whacked the tower over and the fighting started again, but for those few moments, they were so sweet together. Then a few moments later Marisol was laying under my desk kicking at the filing cabinet (she loves the sound it makes) so Flynn lay next to her and did the same thing. This went on just long enough for me to hit record on the video camera and then of course they stopped, she tried to crawl away and Flynn tackled her to the ground …..

Five minutes later they are pulling at each other over the stupidest toy.

It’s what I like to call twin balance — it’s a love-hate relationship for sure.

Our worst moment tends to be at night for bedtime and reading stories. Lots of anti-sister behavior then.

My guys often prefer to “play with each other” (in quotes because it doesn’t always look like play to me) than be entertained by mom or dad. Peek a boo from under the tablecloth, a scramble to see who can get all the tupperwear out of the cabinet first, some serious work at cup stacking—-all part of a regular day in my house.

Congrats!