{"id":5661,"date":"2012-03-24T18:52:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T22:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2012-03-24T18:52:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T22:52:12","slug":"sweet-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=5661","title":{"rendered":"Sweet sounds…"},"content":{"rendered":"

My kids have mastered bickering. \u00a0And tattling. \u00a0And complaining about either not sharing. \u00a0Some days it’s from the minute they wake up until they go to bed they are at each other’s throats. \u00a0 And those days have me wanting to pack up my stuff and hop on the first train to a little place called ANYWHERE ELSE.<\/p>\n

But honestly, though I complain about it, I’m not actually giving them enough credit. \u00a0Those terrible fighty days are easily outnumbered by the days that have them loving on each other. \u00a0Jaia spends so much of her time mothering Wes and trying her best to make him laugh. \u00a0And make him laugh she does. \u00a0Deep, breath-stealing belly laughs. \u00a0The best kind.<\/p>\n

For the last six months or so, Wes has really begun to show his attachment to his sister even more so than before. \u00a0If we are in the car and she’s not with us, he’ll throw his hands up and ask ‘Mama,where’s Jaia?’ with a sad look on his face. \u00a0My absolute current favourite though is the simple ‘Hi Jaia’ and the wave that accompanies it any time either of them enter the room after being away for even a few minutes.<\/p>\n

He just adores her. \u00a0She can make him so mad one minute, but the next he’s her shadow again, copying her every move (which she says drives her batty – though I think she secretly likes it).<\/p>\n

When I pictured having a second child, this is the kind of relationship I hoped for my kids. \u00a0I hoped that above all they would like each other. \u00a0Really like each other. \u00a0That they would be kind to each other and that they would enjoy being with each other. \u00a0It’s been all that and more. \u00a0And it almost makes me forget the days that they are plotting each other’s demise.<\/p>\n

Now that \u00a0Wes is a little \u00a0older and talking up a storm, he is able to interact more with Jaia. \u00a0Instead of playing beside her as she plays, he can now join in the game. \u00a0And their game of shared interest for the last few weeks has been\u2026.Scooby Doo. \u00a0It is ridiculous and hilarious. \u00a0Jaia always gets to be Daphne and Fred, while Wes is Shaggy and Velma. \u00a0Scooby is MIA\u2026but maybe that’s a good thing.<\/p>\n

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These are the moments I live for. \u00a0The sweet sound of them playing. \u00a0Together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My kids have mastered bickering. \u00a0And tattling. \u00a0And complaining about either not sharing. \u00a0Some days it’s from the minute they wake up until they go to bed they are at each other’s throats. \u00a0 And those days have me wanting to pack up my stuff and hop on the first train to a little place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[26,28,29,37,1,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5672,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions\/5672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}