The little apprentice

There is a great little relationship between Buster and Milly.  With Henry at school he gets lots of time with his sister and he really gets the best of her.  When it's just the two of them she includes him in her play and games and he loves, as well as often plays up to, the attention.  He learns so much from her, good and bad.  He has her playfullness and cheekiness.  He also has her determination, strong will and stubborness.  While Milly has pretty much grown out of her tantrums, he has taken up the baton and when he "puts on his parts" as my Nan used to say, he really puts on a show.

Buster is also quite the chatterbox.  Something else we attribute to spending time with Milly.  That's not to say he hasn't learnt things from big brother Henry also.  He picks up a lot of his language from his older siblings and it's when he starts calling people "poo head" or using the words "hate" or "bum" that we shake our heads.

Playing fairies on the windowsill.

Playing dinosaur families in Buster's cot.

He's also growing up.  He no longer wants to sit in his high chair when we sit down to eat at the dining table.  He sits in a dining chair like the rest of us.  Well, he kneels on the chair really, he is so little, but refuses to do it any other way.  He is also refusing to have his midday nap in his cot.  He will only have it in Henry's bed.  We guess this is an ok thing, as it gets him used to a bigger bed for when the time comes.  Until then he is still our Buster Boo and Henry and Milly's little apprentice.