Monday, April 12, 2010

Forced cookie!

We played outside since it was such a nice day. Alexis saw a kid the same size as him but like 3 years older so he decided to play with him by the garage of our apartment, so we didn't go to the park but stayed around. Alexis loves baseball since he watched "Everyone's hero", so he has his baseball bat and ball (they are not that hard, so no worries) but this kids had a plastic bat with drawings of super heroes and an old tennis ball... of course he wanted those so he demanded the kid to give them to him: "Dame (Give it to me), this is mine." then he told the kid : "Go, ball" meaning that he wanted him to throw the ball at him so he could hit it with the bat, he told the kid exactly where he wanted him to be and how to do it. After a while, the kid did not like the fact that he had to give his toys to Alexis, so he attempted to hit him and then I had to interrupt by saying: "those are not his, but you are playing with his  toys too, don't worry I won't let him take YOUR toys to our house. You are only letting him borrow them. But hitting is not good" he did hit Alexis in his hand very softly but Alexis did not care since his hands are a lot bigger, and probably didn't really feel it anyway. The kid got mad anyway and then turned to his a lot bigger brother and started hitting him. The kid though, felt like he needed to do what Alexis told him even though he knew that Alexis is just a baby but I don't think that he believed it too much because of his size!
Then we had a doctor's appointment for Charlotte and went to McDonalds to eat. We always ask for cookies and when it was the moment to eat the cookies... Alexis got really happy, I split one cookie in half and gave him both halves. I got the other cookie without splitting it and prepared to take the first bite when I suddenly see him giving Cameron his pieces quickly and taking the whole one from my hand, I guess he doesn't like when I split his cookies. Towards the end it seemed like he could not eat a whole cookie because, while he was standing up in the seat right next to Cameron, he shoved the last piece of cookie into his dad's mouth and finally said: "No mas" I guess that was it! so Cameron ended up with a very "yummy" piece of cookie and with a laugh! Alexis sure has a very strong and demanding personality, he is willing to share a little more now but at the same time he can be very bully like. I usually just let him be with other kids because I believe that he will learn when he sees the other kids' reactions but at home I try to explain and demonstrate that he can't have everything he wants, only certain things we are willing to give him and share with him but not everything. It is certainly not easy but slowly he will learn. I just hope he won't "force cookies" to everyone else.

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