Mastering Headlocks

I have already started to notice true disputes between the babies. For instance, Piper will be playing with a toy, Rosemary will decide that she wants that toy and not the other twenty laying next to her, and Rosemary will simply take the toy away from Piper, leaving Piper howling. Or one day Piper, who is much more mobile with the rolling than Henry, held a covert operation where she rolled onto Henry's playmat before he knew what was happening, grabbed his toy, and quickly rolled off beyond Henry's reach. All the rolling really wasn't necessary with Henry, though, because he never seems to care and just picks up another toy (at least one kid is laidback). And then there are the times where I hear screaming from the playroom and run in to find Henry holding onto Piper's head, or Piper chewing on Rosemary's foot, or Rosemary sucking on Henry's hand. I can only imagine the fights that are going to develop very soon. . . .

Anyway, many times I come home from work and Brooke has used our camera to take some particularly interesting pictures of the day. These are the pictures I found when I returned from work earlier this week:





That is our cute chubby Piper holding her big, tough brother Henry in a headlock. I was surpised at how happy they looked in the picture, because usually this sort of treatment causes at least one of the babies involved to yell.

The next day, Brooke asked me if I had seen the photos from the previous day, and I said that I had. She said that it was hilarious, and that they were both yelling their heads off when she found them like that. But as soon as she got out the camera, all the yelling stopped and the posing began . . . and then as soon as she put the camera up the screaming started again! I've noticed that it seems that as soon as I open the camera (and it makes that electronic tinkling sound) that they will all turn and look at me with big eyes, and will keep their eyes on me while I'm taking pictures. It sounds as though I was not just imagining things and that the babies are truly posing for the camera. I'm not complaining, though, because I do love some good pictures of the babies, but I do wonder if our repeatedly telling them how beautiful they are all day long may have just gone to their heads. . . .