“She’s like a baby:” The life of a little sister
Poor Avery: Despite her big personality, she’s sometimes overshadowed by her sister (something that, I suppose, may be inevitable for same-sex siblings less than three years apart). I was reminded of this the other morning, when our good friend’s kindergartener spotted Zoe at school, loudly yelled her name, and ran across the school parking lot to give her a big hug. Avery is friends with her, too, but the girl wasn’t as interested in her as she was in the “cool” first-grader.
As a little sib, Avery sometimes also finds herself left out of the fun – as was the case one day last week when Zoe had a classmate come over for a play date. The friend, a boy with two brothers (no sister), had little interest in playing with Avery, despite her attempts to get his attention. “Do you like my nails?” she asked him at one point, to which he responded, “No, they’re gross.” (“They’re not gross, they’re pretty!” she cried out.) And later she came to me from Zoe’s room, sniffling and telling me in a sad voice, “‘She’s like a baby-‘ he said that to Zoe! That hurt my feelings.” Somehow I don’t think this is the last time she’ll have her feelings hurt by one of Zoe’s friends!
-M
September 30th, 2013 08:39
Very cute, but sometimes Zoe needs to be only with her friends even though Avery wants to take place in the fun too. Like you said, there will be many more times when one will soak because they will feel left out.