Savannah has always been a tough little cookie. She has had no problem defending herself and usually demonstrates her powers on RJ. He takes it and usually doesn't fight back. The past few months I have noticed him defend his sister around others. It has been nice to see him stick up for her but lately I think it has been getting a little out of hand.
Last week the kid's were at my Aunt's house playing with Seth while I was at a Doctors appointment. My Aunt told me later how protective RJ was of Savannah. How she was sitting in a chair and Seth was sitting close by. RJ was sure Seth was trying to get Savannah out of the chair so he hit Seth telling him to leave his sister alone. We have had other similar situations. Last night was a little worse and we decided that a talk is in order.
We went to a friend's house last night for dinner. They are in the process of building a house so they took us out there to see it. The kids were all playing in the back yard while we took the tour. All of a sudden we heard Savannah start screaming. Jared went out to investigate. By the time he went out there another little girl Savannah's age was screaming. The story he got was that this little girl pushed Savannah so RJ came over and punched the little girl for pushing his sister.
Later that evening we were back in their apartment. Savannah was playing with a book. She put it on the couch and moved on to another toy. The little girl asked me if she could look at the book. I said yes and gave it to her. Once Savannah realized the girl had the book she had been looking at, she got all upset. She tired to take the book away and we took her away from the situation telling her to share and that Emily was looking at it right now. Well she didn't like that very much and she ran down the hall to get her big brother. She took him by the hand dragging him into the front room all the time yelling "Get her, RJ. Get her"
This was the first time we have ever seen Savannah ask for RJ's help. RJ usually just steps in. We had a hard time not laughing at what was going on. But we realized this protective stuff is getting a little out of hand. I enjoy that RJ is protective of his sister and that Savannah knows that she can rely on him, but I can see this is getting out of control and so we will be having some talks with the kids.
4 comments:
this is too cute for words! what a great big brother and Savannah knows how to get what she wants lol "get her RJ" I LOVE it. hehehe So are you really all moving to Belgium? I can't believe it I know it is still along way from us but soooo much closer we will have to visit one another for sure! Do you have dates yet? Thats so exciting! We're pregnant too due April 28 so not too far apart it will be fun seeing the new babies and we can't wait to see Savannah and RJ.
That's funny. Its nice to know that even though children may fight at time they still love and stick up for each other. Of course you don't want them to gang up on other kids.
Oh man! She's got him wrapped around her finger! This may come in handy in high school, maybe just explain there's a time and an age for this to be ok. ;)
Wow, that's funny. And I think it's an innate boy thing, not so much an older sibling thing, because Jonah is similarly protective of Lea and he is younger than her. Kids are funny.
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