2635 Benvenue as of late

Aviva has been talking a lot about being a kitty cat. She wants to eat rice and ice cream, mixed, both chocolate. She would eat it with her paws which are on her hands.

Aviva's holding Owie, her tried and true

What a cute little kitty cat - many times a day, Aviva pretends to be a kitty cat. Sometimes a mean one, usually a nice one.

Noah and I were talking the other day about weapons. We were looking at a book of weapons from the beginning of time, starting with rocks and sticks. When we got to cannons and missiles, he wanted to understand why people would use them. I started to explain that sometimes people are really angry at each other. But that didn't explain it all and he asked, "Why are people so mean?" He was fascinated by pictures of tanks, and how they could damage a building.

He has been very concerned lately about fairness. It's really important to him that things are fair, and that means EQUAL. If Aviva hits him, he has to hit her back to make it fair. Any vice that Aviva gets away with, has to be committed by him also. And time spent with parents needs to be equal. Yesterday he was very upset that he's a boy so he can't have a baby. It's not fair. And Aviva has 5 letters in her name, and that's not fair. And she got more rice at dinner and that's not fair. 

Equal amounts of food has been a big topic for him. Regarding the rice, he really would have wanted to count the grains of rice. As I was serving him something, he said he wanted to have more than me (I hadn't served myself yet). Also important are the sizes of the slices of bread, and the number of scoops of the spinach paneer, and how many pieces of paneer he got... I told him yesterday that since Aviva can't ride a bike yet, the fair thing would be for Noah to not ride a bike until she can also. I hoped that would bother him and he would drop the fairness issue. But he was okay with that. I'm trying to think of other privileges that he enjoys because he's older, but I haven't found any yet that he would miss. I think what we need to do is spend individual time with the kids and talk about their differences, and how these differences are a good thing. I'm open to others' ideas.... 

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Noah made this mask and cuff and added all the decorations. This is the facial expression and body language that he thinks goes along with it. Notice his cowboy boots.