Breakfast with my kids

Pulling Eli closer!
Scooting Alexis away from Eli, she doesn't like that!
A small moment of peace!

Just because your eating doesn't mean you can't fight...Our conversation during breakfast.

Alexis, “Hey mom, I hear another airplane.” Let’s listen again, she then puts her hand to her ear, “come on mom.”

Kenzie burps.

Alexis, “Scuse you.” Kenzie, “No, scuse you!” “No, scuse you!” “No, scuse you!” (That continues for a couple more rounds.

Kenzie starts making silly faces at Eli, whose highchair I scooted up to the table, between both girls. He loves the attention and starts making sounds at Kenzie. Alexis thinks that is a good idea so she grabs his chair and pulls it towards herself. It couldn’t be more than an inch that she moved him.

Kenzie say’s, “ He wants to sit next to me!” Alexis, “No, she wants to sit next to me!” (Alexis always uses the feminine pronoun for everybody.) “Me!” “No, me!” Every time they say that to each other, they scoot Eli’s chair towards themselves. So this interchange went a couple of rounds. Then it got physical. Alexis started reaching across his chair and grabbing Kenzie’s arms to try and get her to let go. Much screaming! (Normally, I would have stopped the fighting long before, but I am trying to see the humor in the situation, so I am sitting across the table from them writing the entire scene down on a piece of paper. Once it got physical, I just stood up, grabbed the camera and sat back down.) Finally, Kenzie gets up from her chair and walks over to Alexis’ chair and scoots it away from Eli. Well, that really made Alexis mad and so she is screaming, “No Kenz!” But she is not strong enough to scoot her chair back so she just sits there crying. Meanwhile, Kenzie has gone back to her chair to play with Eli some more. A few minutes later, Kenzie notices that Alexis is sad, she gets up from her chair, walks over to Alexis and says, “It’s ok, come on.” She helps her down, and leads her to the bedroom to play with toys.

But it doesn’t end there. Alexis instead decides to yell out, “Kenzie, you’re being naughty!” and shuts the door. She walks up to me and says, “Mom, Kenzie has to stay in the bedroom.” (Wonder where she learned that?) Kenzie is crying, opens the door and comes out. She walks up to me and says, “Mom, Alexis shut the door.” I said, “Oh, man!” Alexis comes up and takes Kenzie’s hands, “You’re being naughty, you need to go to bed.” (I finally intervened.)

That’s what happened during breakfast. Right now, we have some peace. They are coloring at the table, but it always turns into a fight over who gets a certain color crayon. That’s what you get for having two kids one year and ten days apart! It’s a love hate relationship between them!