Summing up the sisters

As we prepare to start the new school year and in Rosie's case prepare to start school full time I wanted to take a few minutes and jot down a few things about them both.

The big sister.

Lily makes me laugh, she always has. Her and I have the same sense of humour. Actually we are very much alike which is both good and bad. The older she gets the more alike we get and that is where the bad comes in to play. Child can push my buttons like nobody I have ever met. She knows it too. Lily has energy, lots and lots of energy and is always up for what ever is going, just like me. She loves to be active and yet loves to sit still with her head in a book. It is a rare instance when you will see her without a smile on her face, it is almost a trademark as she has always been that way.

At 9.5 years old things are making her laugh that used to go over her head. This is something that I find so very very funny. She loves the fact that she is older than her sister and that she knows more about life. It's her own special arena and one she is not expected to share. Certain words just leave her in fits of giggles and being the unfit Mother that I am I just laugh right along with her.

Her face hides very little. At her schools meet and greet one of her friends came bounding up to her and started shaking her by the shoulders. Lily just stood there with her eyes rolled back in her head and a look of utter disgust on her face. As much as I felt badly for her for being shaken by this friend a felt even worse for the friend for receiving the death scowl. The eye roll is somewhat new but really overdone!

She still has her heart of gold and her old soul. She is touched by many things and always willing to help the under dog. I hope this doesn't change. I am still very surprised that she hasn't chosen a vegetarian lifestyle and won't be at all shocked if she does at any moment. She finds the treatment of animals just appalling. Maybe she hasn't figured out yet that she can be a vegetarian.

She is still my happy go lucky girl with a wild streak that craves adventure. Nothing seems to scare her other than the dark.

She loves her little sister and is her greatest protector but at the same time finds her annoying beyond all belief quite frequently. I'm sure this is an older sister trait as I suffered it's perils to no end when I was little but the girl is BOSSY!

I know if all children were as lovable as Lily the world would be a better place.

The little Sister.

All of a sudden Rosie is eating like a horse. We have waited 3.5 years for this to happen and it finally has. She must be growing taller as she isn't getting any bigger around though.

Rosie remains the child with 2 personalities, the one she shows us and the one she shows the rest of the world. She is still so very timid and wary of the world in general and still worries that we are going to leave her. She has made huge strides in this area over the past few months but as this new school year approaches we have seen so many old fears awaken. Nuff said.

Rosie does impressions of people all the time and they are hilarious. Sometimes they are of people we know and sometimes of people on the telly. Either way it cracks me up. She is good at them too. She plays for hours at imaginary games and is often heard using a really gruff voice. It's her man voice. I think because she is little and wants so badly to be big she always plays the role of "daddy" and then of course uses his voice.

She loves to play school and be the teacher. She takes a notepad and scribbles away for ages writing notes. She loves to write her name and trace all the letters of the alphabet. Her other favourite games are, snap, monopoly, and anything using a cash register and credit card scanner. She loves money.

Rosie is a very gentle soul and if you look at her wrong she will cry. I really would have thought having a sister as tough as hers would have taught her a thing or two but it hasn't. She will never try something new without much cajoling from us but then usually loves it and goes again and again. If we waited for her to do everything on her own time we would still be waiting for her to learn how to swim and she would miss out on so much fun. Rosie has to be pushed.

She is very much into how bug she is at the moment. Everytime she gets in the car she is convinced she has grown since the day before and that her head is higher up her car seat. Each meal at the table she thinks she can reach further across it. We have a wall upstairs where we measure the girls and she wants to be measured daily, it's a bi-annual occurrence. She keeps telling me that she is eating so she must be growing.

She is and has always been very loving and makes me laugh if she gets into trouble because she will say, "mummy, I love you" and everyone knows you can't be cross with a child after they have told you that.

Rosie is a gentle giant. Not giant is stature but in personality. Her cute little face can melt even the toughest exterior. The world is a sweeter place with Rosie in it.