When Cousins Collide!

Some of you might remember the post that I wrote about meeting my great-great-grandaughter for the first time about a year ago. At that time I mentioned her unique approach to everything. I got to see her again last Sunday and she was more innovative and fun than ever. She doesn’t like to wear pant and shirts anymore, only ballerina dresses. When she is being dressed in the morning she keeps getting out a dress, hoping to replace the play clothes. When one isn’t accepted, she keeps bringing out another and another, thinking one will be okay. This little blond haired, brown eyed fashionista is persistent. If it sounds like I’m bragging….I am. I’m a great-great, those are the rules!

She just turned two a couple of months ago and is sporting quite a vocabulary. “Hi Grandma” she called as I walked in her grandmother’s house. Most of her talking was reserved for her younger cousin, Oliver. There was a reason for this, you see. ,

Iris plays with the babies at the Day Care she attends, but because cousin Oliver was a preemie and is small for his 18 months, she calls him baby and doesn’t realize he is his own man. He had brought all of his video games and she was staking a claim to them . I haven’t had so much fun in a long time; watching the crying battles that ensued. When she would try to take one that he was playing with she found it wasn’t that easy. You see, Oliver uses a wheelchair and has very strong little arms. So when she pulled a game a way, he didn’t let it go. “Done now”, he yelled and she kept saying “no, no baby”, but couldn’t pry his strong little hands loose.

After the battle of the videos, she decided to push him around in his wheelchair. Her ballerina skirt billowed out like a parachute as they made their own NASCAR track, that is, until they hit one wall and then another. He was laughing out loud as they crashed. He didn’t know girl cousins could be such fun. She kept patting him on the head and saying “I love you little baby

When Oliver was put down to crawl, she crawled all over the house with him. But when he crawled over and picked up a video game, the armistice was over!