The Plan Backfired.

It all starts with good old fashioned peer pressure.

Once Bella saw her older cousins walking...she wanted to do the same. Once she saw her friend Avery swimming...she was swimming the next week. With Tyler, he gets so frustrated when he sees his big sister doing things he can't- and so he tries. When one kids starting gleefully pounding on a drum in the playroom, the other one has to do the same. They copy each other's mannerisms, habits (good and bad) and activity. I guess that's just part of our human nature. We see someone doing something we want to do- and we imitate.

So this morning Heather and I are enjoying our muffins and catching up with each other, and Heather mentioned that she really wanted Allie to see Tyler walking; in hopes that Allie would do the same. We know she can walk, but she's proven that she doesn't want to. So we went about talking as the kids went off to play. We then find Allie crawling around the corner to find us, and what do we see?......Apparently our plan backfired. Ty succumbed to the peer pressure instead of the other way around. Ty has now reverted back to crawling.

So much for parents using "reverse psychology" on our kids.

On an ever cuter note, Tyler tried to "woo" his girlfriends by giving her a bouquet of roses.And when roses fail to impress, there's always the "tackle-her-like-a-linebacker" move.Works every time. :-)