Cole and Ella

Over the past couple years, you guys have all seen countless pictures of Cole and Ella with their arms wrapped around each other like high school sweethearts. You've heard me tell you so many stories about how they act like an old married couple, or play like a set of twins - often they don't even have to talk when they play. If you ask Ella "Who is your best friend"? She will answer, "Cole", before you can even finish the question. There is no doubt they have a special relationship.....with that said, and like all good relationships it doesn't come with out some bumps in the road. But even so, these two continue to surprise us.

Just recently Cole and Ella have started having their first issues. Cole wants to play Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Ella wants to play babies. Cole wants Legos for his birthday, Ella wants a pretend horsey. Cole wants to wrestle, Ella wants to put on lipstick....and so on and so on. When playing outside one afternoon Ella was crying because Cole wanted to play with Vaughn instead of her. Another day, Ella came home from pre-school crying and told me that Cole sat next to somebody else at circle time. If you haven't noticed the underlying theme here, it is: Cole playing with anybody else, and Ella crying a lot. Now I know anyone with girls would just giggle and say "just wait"! But call me naive, I thought Cole and Ella would go through their entire life without so much as an argument :)!

Recently Kelly watched Ella for me. I called her later that night and we were talking about how the day went. She said that Cole and Ella had a conversation something like this:

Cole- "I want to play with Carly".

Ella- "But you can play with Carly all the time, I am here now so you should

play with me".

Cole-"Ella, I will always be your friend".

Ella- "Then how come you won't play with me?"

Cole- "Because I just want to be alone right now"..........all in calm voices without being mean.

I mean seriously what 5 year olds do you know that are able to carry on a mature conversation like that in the middle of heated emotions?? I'm pretty sure most of you reading this are probably not that good at communicating!!

Kelly told me that Cole later told her that he just wants some other friends. She and I went on to talk about how they will work through it, and that maybe it's time we get them a few friends of their same sex. And just kind of giggle about how cute the whole thing is.

Matt had been overhearing my conversation with Kelly. When I got off the phone he asked, "Does Cole want to see other people? Is he breaking up with Ella?" :)

It is so ridiculous, seriously are they 5 or 15??