Just a few quick quirks and some adorable pictures to share with you tonight.

Nicholas and Dexter are brothers.  Sometimes they love each other, like this morning when Nicholas decided he was going to feed his brother cereal.  I had been attempting to eat breakfast (after the boys of course) and both of them came to me begging.  So, I got out the Life cereal and fed them one piece by one piece in between bites of my own cereal.  This went on for a couple of minutes when Nicholas decided to put his piece of cereal in his brother’s mouth.  Dexter obliged by opening wide.  Nic would take one for himself and then one for his brother.  Then he would put a piece in his mouth, remove it like a mama bird and feed it to his brother.  Dexter did not care.  He just wanted the food.  Another example of love by Dexter.  The other morning, according to Joel, Nicholas was besides himself, crying and just not enjoying his morning, and was sitting on Joel’s lap.  Dexter saw what was going on and ran to the other room.  When he returned, he had a monkey in his mouth and another in his hand.  He ran up to Nic, took the monkey out of his mouth, thrust it to his brother, shoved the monkey that was in his hand, into his mouth, and ran off.  If that isn’t brotherly love, I don’t know what his.  Oh, and Dexter will pet his brother’s head.  He does this all the time, when Nicky is calm or upset.  It’s so cute to see.

And then there are the days in which they annoy each other, tease each other, and generally get on each other’s nerves.  Last Monday, when I was home, I was once again eating my breakfast and watching their interaction.  It’s a favorite past-time of mine.  Anyway, Nicholas was happily playing with a toy airplane, flying it through the air and making airplane noises that his his father taught him.  Dexter watched what was going on, calmly walked up to his brother, plucked the pilot out of the airplane and walked away quickly.  He turned back to see if Nicky would follow.  Nicholas looked bewildered at the plane and then at Dexter.  When Nicky didn’t chase, Dexter, (and I kid you not) held out his arm and dangled the pilot for his brother to see.  That got Nicholas’s goat and he started to walk towards Dexter.  Dexter ran to me stopped and looked innocently at his brother like “ha ha – I’m next to Mom and you can’t get me.”  Little did Dexter know that I had see the whole exchange and I plucked the pilot from him and returned it to Nicholas with the “we don’t steal toys from your brother” speech that is said at least once a day in this house.  At other times, Nicholas or Dexter will litterally sit right on & in front of the brother in order to annoy.  

 They are so fun to watch as they grow and develop.  They light up when they see each other and they are upset when the other is hurt.  Here they are being big-old cheese balls.  Enjoy!

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