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The imitation game

It's a pretty well known fact that siblings get great amusement from imitating each other. ESPECIALLY younger siblings when they copy the older ones and annoy them to the very brinks of frustration. Having a younger sister myself, I can vouch for it's efficiency in winding someone up. Our two oldest ones even have a game that consists of them saying (until it escalates to full blown shouting) "stop copying me" at each other while simultaneously making movements for the other one to copy and making pretend grumpy faces. This usually ends up with them both laughing hysterically, that is until one of them decides that they don't actually want to be copied any longer and the giggles turn into a real argument.

We've however hit a new phase with our second born as she now imitates her big sister anytime said sister injures herself. It's been going on for a couple of weeks so of course I usually brush off her whining and tell her she's fine and not sore at all. With a two and a four year old taking every opportunity to get up to nonsense while I'm distracted by their baby brother it's often impossible to know exactly what's happened. Sure the older one makes a little more sense but when they've both had a fight or someone's just tripped (because no one listens to mummy when she tells them to be careful and stop running) and I haven't witnessed the whole affair it's nigh on impossible to figure out what's happened and who is telling the truth.

So when the middle child holds the same body part as her sister and claims she's hurt I definitely take it with a grain of salt, to be fair we don't like to make a fuss unless they really are injured anyway. Yesterday, however, I noticed a bruise over her left eye, bordering on  a black eye. At two she's too wee to have much of a grasp of Aesop's fables and the story about the boy who cried wolf, but it definitely put it to mind. I feel a bit bad that I didn't take her seriously (I have no idea which time it happened either, big sister cries A LOT) but at least she didn't seem bothered by it when I noticed it at bath time. 

I'm going to safely assume that this happens in other households with multiple children too, and if your kids aren't old enough yet, just think of all the fun you'll have when the wee ones figure out imitating their older sibling(s).
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