Literate Alaskador

We've posted before about the personality differences between the two boys, most of which we've attributed to birth order. Add alaskador to the list about Hadrien, which already includes pilo, and siga.

This morning at breakfast Baz was eating pancakes, one of his favorite breakfast foods. Three quarters through, however, he stepped from the table to get a calendar from yaya's room (he likes to start the day by checking out what date it is). So Hadrien - who sits just an arm's reach away and, I'm not discounting that he was probably expecting Baz to up and leave sometime during the meal - takes the opportunity to grab the last delicious mouthful of syrup slathered pancake. Grab fork, spear pancake, straight to mouth. Didn't matter that Hadrien had already finished his own pancake a few minutes before. Nor did he bother asking for more pancakes, probably thinking that nothing's quite as delicious as pancake taken from the mouth of babes.


Naturally Baz was upset and doing his "Hadrien got my pancake" routine. And here's the alaskador part. As Baz is wailing about his lost pancake, Hadrien steps from the table, walks casually to their room, and returns with one of their favorite Eric Carle books, "Pancakes, Pancakes," which he then hands to Baz.

This echoes the last time Hadrien did something similar. Baz was throwing a tantrum and calling for "yaya Dora, yaya Dora" to do something for him. After a few minutes of hearing the same thing over and over, Hadrien walks into their room, and comes back out with a Dora book.

Both times I absolutely love it that Hadrien doesn't say a word as he's handing the book to Baz. Kind of like, "Um ... ayan." This tells me that Hadrien's as sophisticated a thinker as his brother, but he's applying it in different way :)