narrating kayoz

Siblings

Up until recently Liam and Mikaela played pretty well together. Which is to say, Liam tolerated Mikaela amazingly well, and never really seemed to resent her.

All that has changed in the past couple-few months. They still play nicely some of the time, but Liam is getting increasingly frustrated with Mikaela. With her not doing what he wants, with her wanting to follow him and do the same thing as him all the time, and with her wanting to (gasp) share his mother. Actually, she doesn't want to share me, she wants to own me.

"Mine," she says, when Liam wants me. And heaven forbid he should sit on my lap for a cuddle. That gets her completely riled.

Hmm, I'm starting to see where his general frustration might be coming from.

It saddens me though, because until now they've been so lovely together so much of the time. Sometimes they still are, but there is a lot of - basically meanness - from Liam towards Kaely now as well. I hope it's a passing phase, but what I suspect is that it will settle down, but it won't go away completely. Not until they are adults who've had years of therapy to work out all their deep seated problems.

Naming Meme

Because I'm tired and lazy and haven't blogged in a month but am actually not dead yet, here's a naming meme, with thanks to Dawn.

Who named your child?: Chris and I agreed on the names, but I pretty much chose Mikaela Estelle (as you will see), and he moreorless came up with Liam Christopher.

What did you name him/her?: That would be Mikaela Estelle and Liam Christopher. Also we, gasp, hyphenated our names to make their surname, with my name last.

When did you come up with the name?: I came up with Kaely's names when I was twenty. I informed Chris of my choice (just in case of accidental pregnancy you know), long before we were seriously involved. Luckily he didn't scare easy. As for Liam's names... We came up with that maybe two years before he was born. But really we copied it from a friend who had a baby and emailed us the announcement along with the name. We emailed back and said we'd been planning to use that name. And I don't think they're reading but if they are... yes, it's true, we pinched it. They said they didn't mind though, and the two Liam's have a special bond over their names.

Where were you when you came up with the name?: Mikaela's - I don't remember exactly, but I was living in Adelaide. I went to the moving garage sale of a friend-of-a-friend named Mikaela (though I think she spelled it Michaela) and liked it. I can't remember when I decided on Estelle for a middle name. Liam Christopher, of course, we were sitting in front of a computer.

Why did you pick that name?: Well, I liked Mikaela, but Michael is also a family name in my family, and, co-incidentally, in Chris's. And Estelle is my middle name and my paternal grandmother's middle name, and also a great aunt's name on my mother's side. Liam is just a name we liked, but Christopher is, obviously, Chris's name. And his middle name is his Dad's first name, so it seemed like a nice idea to continue that tradition.