Currently my youngest two are having some name-calling issues.  This is a weird thing because it is not something we have ever had much of a problem with ever before.  You can also tell they have never had an example for HOW to call names…their method kills me!

First it was Logan (3) running to me saying Anner was calling names…multiple times and then going abck to play-obviously sweet little Anner would not be calling names-he would not even know how so I ignored it (hey! sand is nice and warm around your ears!  )  Eventually I snuck up near their play-zone and listened–Logan: “DON”T call names!”  Anner: “NAME!” Logan: “NO NO Anner-DONT call names!” Anner: “NAME!”   

Now they make up names…Logan changes the first letter of Anner’s name so he cals him Danner or Banner etc–then amazingly Anner copies him by doing the same–Dogan or Bogan etc-he makes that mental shift and uses the same first letter Logan chooses and changes Logan’s name.

I know this is wrong and the attitude they do it in is purely to try to irk the other person…but it just seems so advanced the way they are doing it–a 2 and 3 year old doing a rhyming and even alliterative kind of thing!

The other thing they had me laughing about?  They are potty training together-Logan has it now actually-well…they named IT-on their own. They both call it “my little guy” (as in look what my little guy can do” my little guy likes the door in my breifs”)

And people wonder why I am so flip–around here it is a mammoth task to stay serious for even 5 minutes!!