This morning after Evie woke at 5 to have a feed she amazingly went back to sleep and I put her back down on her bed. Normally she would have been up and that would have been that. The next thing I know, I hear Tilly tickling and cooing at Evie and Evie's sweet little tinkly laughter floating through the house, and it was 7:30!!!. I've discovered this is Tilly's favourite thing to do first thing in the morning, wake and play with Evie. But it's something she doesn't get to do as Evie usually wakes criminally early and I go to great lengths to keep the two apart so Tilly can get a good sleep. So Evie went back down for her nap much later and after breakfast Tilly was treated to a movie. It's a cool rainy typhoon day today and it's perfect weather for a nap for little sis and a movie for big. Her choice of movie was 'The red tide" - a movie given to us by our mothers group at the church. About an under water kingdom ruled by a whale of the deep. In the movie is a little crab who works for a nasty big fish who endeavours to kill the sea with a poisonous "red tide". The little crab is sad and lonely and trapped (literally at one point, in a trap made of sticks). I decided to use it as a chance to talk to Tilly about how to treat others, especially those who are lonely, in trouble etc. And the conversation went something like this:
- Me: Can you see how sad he looks? All alone and trapped. You know if you see someone like that little fish who is all sad and alone you should go to them and be a kind friend to them. (I was speaking figuratively about being trapped - but he was indeed trapped in some sticks)
- Tilly: Mmmm, well he isn't a fish mum. He's a crustacean.....
- Me: Ok, well if you see someone like that little crustacean you should go and be a kind friend to them.
- Tilly: Mmm, yes. And I will get them all out of the sticks like that.
- Me: Well, sure. If they happen to be trapped in sticks, getting them out would be a nice idea too....
