Sibling Rivalry

We've reached the point in time where it's become quite necessary for us to move our almost 7 month old out of our bedroom walk-in closet where she sleeps in the pack-n-play and finally into her crib in her own room. Well, it's not really her own room, she shares it with her sister. In our few attempts to move her before, it seemed like it just wasn't worth the stress of having her in there with me being so worried that she'd wake up Anna. The truth is that Alissa hates her crib and loves the pack-n-play. Understandable being that she's always slept in the pack-n-play. What she needed was to have the room to herself for a while as she got used to sleeping in the crib.

So, I took the plunge and moved Anna's crib into Andrew's room and finally let Alissa have a room to herself. Last night was our first night and would you believe that everyone slept all night? Alissa screamed in her crib for probably 15 minutes before finally zonking, but the other two seemed relatively unphased by one another. I could hear them talking to each other for a few minutes before falling asleep, which actually did my heart a lot of good.

Oh, right, I titled this Sibling Rivalry. It's becoming more and more evident to me how each of my children's personalities could affect their relationships. Anna, who has always been fairly aggressive is also pretty sly. I find myself scolding Andrew when he complains that Anna took something from him as she sits there suspisciously quiet. I think she does the "wrong" thing, but gets away with it by being quiet. I gotta watch her!
Andrew, on the other hand, complains and whines about so much. He's very good with using his words and has quite a vocabulary. I'm grateful that he expresses himself so well, but the trick is turning the whining into something more productive.
Alissa is certainly too little to evaluate, but so far I see her demonstrating a disposition that really reminds me of Andrew. I guess time will tell.