Saturday morning I was home with the boys while Catherine and Roger took the van to be vacuumed out (or something equally exciting), and I asked myself, "Hmmm, what kind of fun activity can I do with the boys?"The obvious answer, of course, was "Make homemade slime." So a Google search later, we had a slime mixture of Elmer's glue and Borax that absolutely thrilled the boys. And by "thrilled" I mean they started throwing it at each other across the table until Mommy yelled at them to stop. Then they took baths to clean the slime out of their hair. Let's hear it for buzz cuts.
But the point is that the brothers really do get along well. Anything Vincent does, Dominic does, right down to trying to wear his shoes and jackets. Hero-worship at its finest.
It's like Vincent has his own little echo. If Vincent calls out, "Hey, let's be monsters!" we'll hear a tinny "Monsters!" behind him. Or, "Hey, let's be aliens!" "Aliens!" "Hey, let's be cowboys!" "Cowboys!" We probably ought to give singular credit to Vincent for his brother's recent onslaught of vocabulary.
Imitation is flattery, right? I think another way of putting that is that there is nothing as much fun as a big brother.
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