Heart Thoughts- Siblings

They were playing yesterday on a rainy day. Throwing the ball and laughing away, with the typical sibling squabbles that came up occasionally too. And I looked at Waverly laying there in the next room on her mat, and her eyes were talking to me. She even made a few noises. Whatever she was trying to tell me, she was very serious and intent. 

"You want to go play with them?"

So I disconnected as much as I could, hoisted her up, and we went to her siblings and played ball (yes, in the house!). They shared it with her and rolled it to her and helped her throw it. 

Then, the fighting happened. Waverly got selfish and kept holding the ball away from them. "Waverly, give it back!" 

And they'd take it out of her hands. And they'd play a bit more and then "she'd" do it again. She even hit her sister a few times! 

"Waverly, you need to share and be kind," I'd remind her. 

And I had tears in my eyes. Most mothers would give anything for their children NOT to fight and squabble while playing. Goodness knows I could use a break from the older two getting into it about almost everything all the time. 

And even though I was "making" her cause a little trouble, I had to do it. At that moment I longed for things to be "normal". For my 3 year old to want to tag along and play with her older siblings. To have them laughing and playing together, like they were. But I knew that a little squabble would be part of it too. That as a typical 3 year old, I'd have to remind her to be careful and to share and to not be too rough with her sister. So I had her do those things too. Normal siblings play together. Normal siblings fight some too. And for a moment I had a tiny glimpse of what it could be like. 

And they all had a blast.