"Be Quite! I am on the phone!"

Said my ‘almost 4 year old’ to me as I interrupted his pretend call with his dad… He laughed; he spoke words I could not understand with some “you know” and “sometimes” thrown in… “You’re so funny daddy” he continued his conversation, “O.K. bye bye, love you!” He then passed me the phone and said he was all done.

My son is almost 4, we sometimes forget that he is still just a baby too, he seems so grown up, so mature. He even helps me with taking care of his brothers, on his good days at least! On his bad days, he pulls the 2 year old’s hair, pushes the 2 year old, takes all the toys for himself, and passes out orders to us all!

Today was a shocker… my almost 4 year old asked to go outside… (its hot outside, H.O.T., and I am from the Caribbean!) so I said ok but for a little while. He got slippers for himself and his brother, he went outside for less than 5 minutes then came back in and called his brother back in, and he took their slippers back to ‘where the slippers live’!

Next surprise… he asked to go to sleep for naptime!! I brought them up and gave them milk (yeah he still drinks milk from a bottle…) As I was nursing the baby, I did not go back to get the bottles once they were done… my almost 4 year old got his bottle, and his brother’s bottle, and brought the bottles to me. Then he went back in their room.

By the time that I finished with the baby and went to check on them, they were asleep! He even closed in their room door!

Wouldn’t you be in shock too?!?

Well, at least the baby is still behaving as expected… while the other 2 sleep, he is making loud “ah ah ah ah” noises, trying to escape his crib, and complaining every time he notices that someone is not holding him!