the following is a clip of a tender moment between summer and afton that is not uncommon at the wheeler household.
our two girls have incredibly different, uh, "emotionalities" (or emotional personalities, if you will). summer is hot-blooded and quick to react. she violently flings herself onto the floor and rolls around screaming her head off pretty regularly. afton, on the other hand, can be quite unruffle-able. (that's not to say she doesn't throw her fair share of two-year-old tantrums. and she can, in fact, be unbelievably irrational, thus earning her the nickname of "afton jong il" around these parts. just try to take those dollies away from her; i dare you).
but in most heated interactions between the girls, it's summer gnashing her teeth and yelling as if her arm's been cut off and afton going quietly about her business like she's floating on a breeze.
and afton's apparent lack of an emotional reaction has proven to be frustrating for poor summer. all our summer girl seems to want -- especially when she's in the depths of despair -- is an acknowledgement of her pain and suffering from her baby sister.
remarkably, afton has picked up on this need of summer's, and now, when they're fighting (again, the "fighting" usually looks like summer tantruming in tears while afton continues to play happily by herself), afton will eventually turn to summer and say, "hug?" at which point, summer stops crying, crawls into her sister's lap and lies down so afton baby can love her better.
http://youtu.be/DQOJJ6u8F78
ps - the piano music in the clip is actually not a video edit. it just so happened that when i took the video of the girls, that's what was playing in the background. sort of adds to the ambiance, though, don't you think?
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