Its nice to have a little sister

Archer is usually too quick for Shelly to catch up to him, and he's usually too busy to slow down for her. But maybe things are changing. He does stop to tell her things sometimes. (Or stop to tell ON her.) When she pulled herself up onto the couch all by herself I was completely surprised and asked her "since when can you do that?" Archer chimed in "I taught her how to do that!" I'm not sure if he really did but either way I think its nice that he takes an interest in helping her learn things.

Last night David and I were sitting on either end of the couch with Archer in between. Shelly climbed up onto David's lap and then crawled over onto Archer's lap and put her head on his shoulder and her arms around his neck. And he put his arms around her. And they just sat there, for three or four minutes. Archer gently patted Shelly's back and she stayed on his lap. I watched them and felt so full of love for these two children who almost never slow down enough to even acknowledge each other in passing because they're so busy, and now sat hugging each other in a gesture of trust and companionship. Shelly got squirmy and climbed down off the couch to find something else to do but was back again soon and when she lay down with her head on Archer's lap my heart swelled again. Archer said to us, "its nice to have a little sister like Shelly."

Its awesome to have children like Shelly and Archer.