Blue...

When Caleb was born we just kind of designated colors for our boys.... to know whos was whos or to know whos sippy cup was whos once they were both using them. We just said Benjamin is Blue and Caleb will be Green. Well recently Caleb has decided that GREEN is NOT his favorite color. We are having knock down drag out fits if he doesn't get the "blue" whatever. In one way I am really glad he is doing this because he so far is quite the follower and will just do whatever Benjamin does and say whatever Benajmin says. He ususally doesn't have his own thought or opinions on things either its just what Benjamin thought. We try to have him tell us things before we ask Benjamin just to have him say what he wants first. The bad side of this is that he is throwing ROYAL fits if the cup or whatever is not BLUE.

Recently I have just been making sure they both have the same color of everything just to avoid the fits. I don't want him to get away with these fits either when they happen. This morning Benjamin put his big boy underwear on and it ended up Caleb wanted that blue pair of boxers and nothing else would do. I finally told him that Benjamin picked them out first and if Caleb didn't put the gray ones on that we would have to go put a diaper on and get back in bed.

There is a lot of competition from Caleb when it comes to Benjamin. Every morning we start with a fight over who picks the cartoons for the morning (which I have started picking) and they still fight over it.
Then there is a fight of who gets to sit on my lap while I drink my coffee. I recently have started saying no one in my lap you can sit on either side of me. Then it is a fight of who gets to sit on which side. It is so much competition with my boys. I hope they grow out of it becasue I hate it. They are good buddies most of the time but there will always be some of that.

Sometimes I still question why God thought I needed two boys so close together, don't get me wrong I love them to death and wouldn't change it, but I am also praying very hard for a little girl next time we have a baby. And no we are not trying.