Sibling Love

Yesterday we went to visit a nursing home for severely mentally disabled women. They like to have visitors, they like people to sing with them, to talk to them, to feed them… and they love it when people take babies to visit. So we had decided to bring Manel along but not Rosarinho, because she’s old enough that she would get too impressed.
When we told her she was staying with grandma and we would be right back she started a huge tantrum and wouldn’t let us leave. This is very unlike her; we leave them with the grandparents all the time and this was only for a couple of hours. I explained it to her but she just wouldn’t hear of it.
As I was trying whatever I could to convince her, I eventually told her we would leave M as well, not really expecting this to change anything. She immediately stopped crying and told us we could go, that she would be fine and would take care of him. Sometimes we don’t realize how attached she has become to him, and how lost she feels if he’s not around.

So when my MIL suggested that one of the kids stay with her when we go to Barcelona to make it easier on my mom, our answer was obviously no way. We couldn’t possibly separate those two.