Little Bully

This is becoming a little bit of an issue. You are a bully every time you have any encounters with other kids and their toys.

This has happened with every single one of our baby friends. Most of them are younger than you... so I am not sure if you feel like you are bigger and can win. As soon as you see other kids playing with a toy, you must have it. You yank it out of their hand, and if they get upset you just look at them puzzled like what did I do? If they don't get upset and grab another toy instead, you will go after that one. Sometimes the way you take it away is pretty forceful and you even grunt afterwards, and at times run away. Such a little trouble maker. It's totally embarrassing for us when you behave that way, and at the same time it's hard not to laugh. You of course do this with your toys as well. Sometimes it seems like you begin to share and give a toy to the other child, but it seems very brief and more like a tease, since often you take it back and run away. The situation is a little bit different when you have encounters with toddlers that are a little bit older, you are no longer as brave to push them around. :) I think you might be ready for daycare/preschool setting where you interact more with other kids and hopefully will learn to share better. I know it's not a skill that that most kids learn at your age, but I see other kids and they're not as aggressive. Even on the playground, when you want something to yourself, you start pushing other kids away, it's happened so many times and I try to tell you that you're not being nice, and you need to be gentle and share, however at this point it goes into one ear and comes out the other... so we'll see what happens in the future.

On a completely different note, you have started to become more affectionate to us. You give us hugs, and kisses which was so rare before. Before as soon as we picked you up you wanted to weasel your way out to get back down, and you still do that especially when you don't want to be held and want to play, but there are times in the evening and morning when you are super cuddly. You say hi when you see one of us come in the room after you had woken up and you have a huge grin on your face. You also say bye and wave. It is just so darn cute, making it that much harder to leave.