Friends In Deed

We babysat Eddie's two-year-old friend, Alex, all day yesterday while his mom had her baby. We have babysat him many times. Eddie is getting older, though, and it was interesting to see all the things they do together now. Here is a little list of their fun.

1. They feed each other whatever they have to eat. Eddie puts all of his crackers, for example, in Alex's mouth (one at a time), and Alex puts all of his in Eddie's mouth.

2. They follow each other around. Alex crawls around behind Eddie.

3. They make each other laugh. Eddie would straighten his legs when he was in a crawling position and look through his legs to see Alex. His feet, hands, and head would be on the ground (as if he were about to do a somersault or handstand). They would both laugh so hard at this.

4. They play games together. Usually Alex came up with them. Some of their games were dumping all the books, loading up the book basket with toys, putting toys under the couch, dancing to the electronic drum, and putting the bear in the swing and dancing.

5. They work as a team to be quite the little troublemakers. Eddie crawls to a closed door and touches it. Alex jumps up and opens the door, so they can both go in and cause a ruckus.

6. They cry together. When Alex would be in time-out, which was behind a closed door, Eddie would knock on the door and cry (Alex was crying on the other side). He would then come to me or Ben and point, wanting us to help Alex.

It was really fun to see them interacting so much. Too bad I didn't get any pictures.