Sisters

I took my kids to the park today. My numbers are way down, and I only had 3 this morning, so I piled them into carseats and set out for a new park experience.

This park had a 4 seater seesaw that was quite an attraction. I have a set of sibling sisters and it's fun and interesting to watch the dynamic between them. Most of the time, little sister (2) is a pain in the behind to big sister (3 1/2). But yet there is still a pull to be the big sister and include her.  You can see the dichotomy in her face every time big sister gets annoyed, but then feels like she has to make it up to her.

The two 3-year-olds found a like-minded friend at the park that loved the seesaw. But realizing that three made the thing wobble terribly, big sister set out to recruit little sister as their fourth seat.

When little sister decided she didn't like the teeter totter big sister tried a commanding voice to get her back on the seesaw.  Little sister would have none of it.

Big sister, not being successful with recruiting decided the thing was too unstable and went off to find a new thing to play.


I watched this with interest.  The discovery of a new device, experimenting to figure out how it works, then finding a solution to the problem, all within the minds of three-year-olds.  It was fun and interesting to notice the thought capacity of these little minds.  It also makes me reconsider the things I take for granted because I already know how everything works.  (Said with some sarcasm to that last bit.)


It must be exciting to make new discoveries, and new ways of doing things, every day.