Sibling Love

Kent loves Rachel. And Rachel loves Kent. Kent wants to do everything Rachel does and play with everything she plays with. 

When Kent is not getting his way with one parent, or if one of us is making him do something he doesn't want to do he will ask for the other parent, and the switch off is usually all he needs to decide to be obedient and listen to what we are trying to get him to do. The switch off is key with him for some reason. Well when Jacob isn't home and I'm trying to get him to do something, instead of asking for Daddy he will say, "I want Rachel!" The other day, I was trying to get Kent to stop what he was doing and go in and go potty (which he was completely refusing to do) and he said, "I want Rachel!" So Rachel came over and said "I can take him potty!!" And the result was the picture above. She put her arm around him and walked him to the bathroom and told him what to do and he listened! That same scenario has actually played out a few times since then. It makes me laugh a little that my 3 year-old is taking my 1 year-old potty. 

Kent is also in full blown 2 year-old tantrum mode (even though he's not quite 2.) When he is in the middle of a tantrum he does not want anything from me (except whatever he was throwing the tantrum about) and yells and cries. Rachel has taken to going and talking to him in the middle of his tantrum and giving him a talk and most of the time it snaps him out of his tantrum and he actually listens to what he has to say. And the things she says to him totally crack me up. She talks to him in a super sweet voice and says things like, "Kent, when you make wrong choices then the Holy Ghost can't be in our family, and it makes us sad when we make wrong choices. And when we make wrong choices, we can't go back to love with Heavenly Father again, so it's really important that we repent and make right choices." It makes me laugh to hear those things coming from her mouth and it makes me feel good too because it makes me feel like some of the things we are telling her are getting through to her. I love to see how much these kids love each other. Oh they fight over things too, but they play well together and it just makes me happy.