Sisterly Love and Brotherly Payback

As each of our kids get a bit older and reach farther into the imagination and farther into realms of play, we are hearing more and more interesting snippets of things floating about the house sometimes. Since Evelyn is the oldest she is the ring leader and she also has the clearest speech so often her voice is the one we can make out the easiest- but not all of the time, I assure you. Here are a few examples:

• Evelyn was telling Liam's fortune with an Uno deck and Les heard that Liam would be really good at carrying luggage at an airport when he grew up.
• Liam wanted to give Ev a goodnight kiss the other night and she looked at him, shivered and said, "Let's not, let's hug, you're kind of...gross and boogery". "Oh-hay Sissy" he said and hugged her tightly and ran off to bed. 
• Everything here is Hogwarts and Harry Potter and they are frequently mixing potions in Ev's room, one day in passing I heard her say, "No! You can't touch that. You have too much monkey in you to actually MIX potions!! You just WATCH me do it and be my test subject!"
• Today while I was making lunch she had this bowl out and she was playing The Bowl Of Fire (after swallowing bitter disappointment that I was lacking a real goblet) and after boring the poor child with a long list of rules she finally got to the part and she said " And then there will be four very har...." at this point she eyes him up and down, changes her mind "Ummmm not so hard at all tasks to complete...."

We don't laugh this off and let her get away with it, we do try to keep her under control. But you have to admit she does have a certain...style. Believe me he gets back his own, his Grandparents can attest to the fact that he is not an innocent victim here. She is 8 and he is 4 and he is on the cusp of figuring out that he outweighs her (very nearly if you can believe it) and can lick her face or some other gross thing that brothers do. The very next day that she didn't want to kiss him? I had to drag him off of her because he was indeed VERY boogery and had her trapped in a corner and going in for a big back and forth smoochy woochy and enjoying it immensely, and well, she was about to have a mental break. He has also started mimicking her. Also he can just sit outside of her room and call her name over and over while she's trying to read. 

Actually if you think about it from a different angle, it's me they are after.

Also how DO little boys make so much snot?