brothers unlike another

every day i marvel at how different these two are. you would think it wouldn't surprise me as much, but i am constantly blown away. blown away i tell you! i think that when you we had bryson, we didnt know a lot of people with babies (or kids) and so we just thought it was normal for a baby to cry for hours at a time. we thought it was normal for kids to throw tantrums until they puked, to make constant noise from the time they woke up to the time they went to bed, to be constantly moving and expending energy-energy-energy! we thought it was normal for them not to cuddle and freak out when being hugged, or rocked, or held still in any way. i guess...not normal like its the norm, more like that is the type of person you get when you mix my energy with bryan's energy...:)

then came bodie. as much as bryson loved to fight sleep, bodie would let us know when he was tired. i have NEVER heard the words "I am tired" uttered from bryson's lips...still...but bodie knows and now that he can speak he lets us know. but as loud as bryson is...bodie is just as quiet. as boisterous and smiley and all over the place as bryson is, bodie is solemn and calculating and watchful.

we were at the park the other day and were only there for about a half an hour when bodie said, "i wanna go home...take a nap". i was so shocked i started laughing. then he puckered his little lips and furrowed his brow even more, if you can picture it...and told me again. i took him into my lap and there he sat for the next half an hour....which is probably the amount of time bryson has ever sat in my lap in his 5.5 years of life combined.

i love that they are this way. i love that they compliment each other so well. i love that bryson brings out this goofy and boisterous side in bodie that few get to see. i love that they teach each other things because they see the world through such different lenses. i love that bryson's independent nature coincides so well with being the oldest brother. he is a natural leader and i think he is going to be an amazing big brother...if only we can temper the bossiness...hmmmm...(i realize these are my genes here mother!)

its so fun to watch their very distinct persons come out...and i can't wait for bobby to be in the mix (what am i saying? of course i can wait!) but this brother thing is very new to me and it is so fun to watch...well...that is perhaps an exaggeration...sometimes it is fun...the other day when bryson took bodie down a big twisty slide in a headlock i started to scream...then bodie came off the slide laughing...i dont get it...i dont get boys a lot of the time...but they are decent teachers :)