My kids can play really well together.
Really well. Sometimes for more than an hour.
They can also annoy the shit out of each other.
They will fight over anything.
Everything.
They will fight over crayons.
Over ponytail holders.
Over forks, sippy cups, books, guitars, tv shows, where they sit on the couch, who had the idea first, who said the word first, if their body parts are touching each other, if they are looking at each other, who is going first, who won, who lost, who’s the best, who called it first, singing in the car, who rides shotgun, who lost the remote, who stole the fucking Rainbow Loom rubber bands…
You name it,
they will fight over it.
In addition to this, Number 7 is in a get-anything-and-everything-that-is-out-of-reach-no-matter-what-needs-to-be-done phase.
We have this little pink table in the kitchen that some of the kids will sit at to eat dinner.
There are some shelves a few feet above the table in the kitchen.
They are supposed to be for glasses, but they have turned into the place where I put stuff up out of reach so that Number 7 can’t get to them.
Papers, lotion, spray paint, Sharpies…
Last week the powder was up there.
Number 7 put a chair on the table, climbed up, got the powder, and then did her thing.
Shortly after the powder incident, there was a fight over who got the red chair, and who got the pink chairs.
And so, to the people who asked why there was a chair on top of the hutch yesterday when I posted this picture on the Facebook page,
well, there’s your answer.
(And no, none of the girls are named Emily. I bought that chair at a tag sale a few years ago for $.50 
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Holy Shit! I didn’t even notice the chair!
My two year old has just figured out that she can move chairs around to get the things she wants. I foresee some similar issues coming up. She’s a little behind #7 in that regard, only because she doesn’t have a #6 that she’s been watching for two years do these things first.
