These two

Each day that passes these two fall in love with each other a little more. Cole's jealousy has waned (crossing my fingers!!) and we can see his heart really opening up to her. He has always loved her but it was a tortured kind of love, mostly because he didn't like that she took so much of me away from him. At the same time she was his baby sister- what's not to love about that?

 And now, she crawls around the house, follows him from room to  room, plays with him ( and his toys) more and more every day. Consequently, he's relishing her attention and finding new ways to connect with her. 

What's amazing is watching her personality shine through just by her interactions with him. When he is sad, she wants immediately to be close to him, to comfort him. She is moved by his tears. 

I see that this is even the case with other people too. When we were at a friends birthday party last weekend, the birthday girl started to cry and Bevin reached over and stroked the birthday girl's head and tried to look her in the eye, perhaps to give her a comforting look. It was so loving. It made me so proud.

Then the other night when Cole was sobbing on the floor because his treasured balloon broke, Bevin crawled over to him and laid her head on his to comfort him. She had tried to actually hug and kiss him as they both squatted on the floor a few minutes prior, but that had ended badly when Cole moved and she wound up gripping onto his face with her tiny, squeezing hands. 

Coming from a family in which I was the only child, watching these two grow together brings me such joy. 

The pictures below are by no means of the best quality (crappy light + iPhone = this is what you're gonna get) but the subjects are what led me to publish these pictures. The gestures, the looks, the body language. It all speaks to this post.