Infant Invader!!!

Invader: "Someone who enters by force in order to conquer."

We've been experiencing a little bit of jealousy from Callia over Thad the past few days. Friday I walked out of the room for a couple seconds while Thad was propped up on a pillow on my bed and Callia was sitting on the bed next to him. The next thing I knew he was screaming and I ran in and asked Callia what happened. She said "I don't want to tell you". So we had a little talk about how important it is for her to tell me things that happen etc., and she said in a resigned tone of voice, "Oh, OK.... I saaat on 'im." He stopped crying when I picked him up but by that point his nose was turning red and I asked where she sat on him and she said, very resigned, "On his head", dragging out the last word. I wish I had a recording of the way she said it. It was hard for me not to laugh at her. So I said thank you very much for telling me and gave her a hug and sent her to her room. I told her if she does it again she will get popped because it hurts him and she is not allowed to hurt him. Then yesterday I was going to the store and Nathan stepped out onto the porch to talk to me for a second as I was leaving. When he went back inside he was greeted by essentially the same scene, Thad screaming and Callia looking guilty, and when he asked her what she did she said she sat on him. He did pop her for it. I guess she is just feeling the strain of the reduced amount of attention. She has also been hitting Thaddeus in the face with various items, luckily soft ones like blankets or stuffed animals. And this afternoon she hit Treston over the head with a very large stuffed Doberman (larger than Treston). Not sure how we're going to handle it other than disciplining her for each offense and giving her a little more special hugging and playing time, and trying to be careful about doting over Thaddeus in front of her. She is, after all, just as loved as she was before.