Kids are Weird

If you have kids, this is nothing new to you. If you don't and are considering having some someday, be forewarned: Children are extremely weird. And they really don't catch on that easily. For example: children who have just gotten 5 staples in the back of their head should not jump down stairs, or climb on windowsills only hours after a head injury. This should be self-evident, but apparently it's not. You would think that when Blake jumped off of his top bunk and busted his lip open (by piercing his tooth all the way through) that he might have learned not to do that anymore. But he didn't.

Olivia sometimes likes to run around the house wearing just underwear or pants (so do George, Blake, and Bryce). But after running around the house with no shirt on for about 45 minutes, she hid behind the Christmas tree to put her shirt on because she "needed some privacy". And then she just can't comprehend that other kids don't want her to tear apart their blocks or puzzles or rip their craft projects or color on their coloring sheets, even though she screams when they make even a dot on her paper.

They make up for it in the end, though. Yesterday, Olivia was having an "episode" (my word for tantrum) because her mom left, and George kept telling her, "It's ok, it's ok. Mommy will be right back" , while he was patting her back. And then today, she had another episode about her hair or something and went to her room and he was trying to convince me that she shouldn't be in trouble (which she wasn't). He kept saying, "Livvy's sorry, Jennifer". He can be so sweet. And Olivia just wants to check on her brother sleeping in his big boy bed now because she thinks he's so cute laying there. Bryce and Blake will fight about something, almost always ending with one of them getting hit, punched, kicked, or pinched. And then when you get the violent one in trouble, you get yelled at with "leave my brother alone." Weird.