A Special Bond

I thought that Kimberly looked particularly adorable on Sunday, so I tried to get her to smile & take her picture, but to no avail... Plenty of mediocre pictures, but no "perfect" pictures. So then I enlisted Skyler's help and got these:

Adorable, huh? Yeah, there's something between those two kids that I just can't match! They seem to have a special bond that only brothers and sisters can have.

For example, a couple of weeks ago when Kimberly was teething, she wouldn't eat anything, wouldn't nurse & didn't want a bottle (even of juice!) because her teeth hurt so much. But if Skyler offered her the bottle, she would drink it right down! It was a good thing we had Skyler around, or Kimberly would've been pretty miserable AND hungry.

Also, lately Kimberly has been waking up in the morning before Skyler, and when she wakes up & sees Skyler across the room sleeping silently, she just can't help herself but yell over to him to get his attention until he wakes up. Skyler doesn't always appreciate it (in fact, he groggily comes out of his room rubbing his eyes & announces, "Kimberly woke me up again Mom..."), but I know that Kimberly just adores him. In fact, if I go in to get her from a nap & Skyler's not with me, she searches the room & looks over my shoulder until she finds Skyler. Then a big grin creeps up on her face as if she's just spotted a huge pile of birthday presents. :)

They also have that special kind of brotherly/sisterly bond that knows just how to bother each other, but their special moments of pure love quite often overpower those other moments. What a sad life it would be without FAMILY!