WAIT YOUR TURN! How many times have we heard that? It is hard to be 3. You go with the flow (mostly) and get dragged around, overlooked, and wait for your turn to do all those things that you see others doing.

This morning in the car my 3 year old told me that today he is going to play with his big brother's toys. He does not want to play with his own, he wants to play with William's. On Tuesday & Thrusdays Patrick spends the day with my parents, so instead of playing with his toys there, he is playing with William's.

How hard it must be to be him, with 4 years between them there are so many things that William does that Patrick is not allowed to do. This weekend was packed full of activities and Patrick got left out of quite a few of them. No play dates, no birthday party, even when we went bowling someone helped him. Don't get me wrong, it is not always like that, but it happens more and more often. Patrick's "turn" is years away...

Taking a trip in the car to the scrapbook store with mommy apparently did not fill the void, so today he is taking his stand! He is playing with those treasured big boy toys that when present, William does not like him to touch unless he has special permission and is in general favor with his big brother.

I guess even a 3 year old had his limits. And today he took his turn.