Sisters Can Be “Fosterating”

Just minutes after Gus unwrapped the paint set Chelsea had given him for his birthday, Mamie quietly claimed it for her own. We found the almost 3 year old carefully applying paint to the couch as the rest of us visited in the other room!  Luckily it was that invisible-until-applied-to-special-paper Crayola Color Wonder stuff, and it didn’t damage the furniture.  After scolding Mamie and cleaning up the mess she had made, we noticed Gus sitting quietly at the dining room table.  Old Man went to give him a pat on the head, and Gus looked up at him and calmly said, “I am just SO ‘fosterated’ right now!”  Old Man asked him why he was frustrated, and Gus answered, “I’m fosterated because Mamie ruined my paints!”  Yep, this is a boy who has no trouble expressing his feelings – even if his word pronunciation is a little…shall we say…childish.