Siblings and Cousins

On Sunday night my mom, sister and her two kids arrived to spend the week at our house. We have made good use of the pool this week, have shopped, watched the kids play and visited various parks in Columbus. What has been most interesting is watching the kids interact with each other. Abby is a cute little imp, taking her cousin Kaleb's toys away from him just to see him cry, she grins and runs away when she does this. She also will give Kaleb, Karoline, or Gabriel a toy and then cry when they take it, I think she is trying to get the other child in trouble in order to receive more attention. Gabriel and Karoline have been getting along so much better than normal so far. Gabriel tends to cry anytime Karoline does the smallest thing to him though. My general response is for him to talk to Karoline and try to work it out for himself first, if this doesn't work then I need to step in and help. But the bickering between the two is minimal. Maybe that's because Gabriel lets Karoline boss him around. It's been a lot of fun to watch them play and interact together. I just wish we could do it more often. But the time they have together is precious.