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I know I’ve mentioned this before, but Ila adores her little brother.  Sometimes she is an overly solicitous big sister, hugging and kissing him when he’s sleeping, or climbing up into my lap while I’m feeding him so that she can gently pat his head and tell him she loves him.  I just love seeing her show affection for him.  She gives him long hugs and sweet little kisses on his head.  She tries to comfort and love him when he cries.  Yesterday he was laying on the floor and he started to get fussy.  When her hugs and kisses didn’t work I said that I thought he needed a “mommy hug.”  She tried to get him to tell me “I don’t want it, mommy hug” because she wanted to keep giving him loves.  Today when he started crying, Ila got to him first.  When I told her that I thought he needed a mommy hug, she insisted that he needed an “Ila hug” instead.At times she tries to put a pacifier in his mouth when he doesn’t want it, all I have to say is “Thomas says no thank you” and she will stop. Today I put a pacifier in his mouth and she told me “He doesn’t want it, pacifier.”Often if one of her siblings tries to talk to Thomas, Ila will run up and say “That’s MY Thomas,” then she’ll squeeze in between that other sibling and Thomas and start hugging and talking to Thomas herself.  If she’s strapped into her seat at the table and Thomas wakes up or starts to cry she’ll start yelling “finished” and “I need Thomas.” Here she is offering him a ball while he sleeps: