The Beauchamp FamilyYes, we really are this geeky…

She did it! No… he did it! No… she did it! No… he did it!

Welcome to my world, my friends. I know this is typical sibling behavior, but seriously, sometimes I think we should each only be allowed to have ONE child so they can’t blame each other.

We have started letting Cassie sleep on the sofa because we are moving next month and they will have their own rooms. Jamie tortures the poor child at night… whispering “you’re scared, Cassie, you should get up and tell Mommy” or worse, throwing toys at her until she comes screaming into the living room.

We get them down tonight and Jamie does NOT want to go to sleep (granted, I know it seems unfair that Cassie doesn’t have to sleep in her bed, but still). After about 15 minutes he comes in with one of those kid’s lip balms. Cassie “won” this at Chuck E Cheese at a birthday party and she just adores this thing. In it, is a My Little Pony hair brush. Yes, folks, someone dug into the lip balm. Jamie comes out and declares Cassie did it, of course Cassie says that Jamie did it. I don’t know who did it, but it’s freaking bed time already.

But, there’s more at play here. If Cassie did it, okay, she shouldn’t have, but it’s her stuff to destroy. BUT if Jamie did it, he needs to learn to take responsibility for his actions. I had this whole thing planned out where he’d have to use his allowance to buy her a new one (hey, I thought it was pretty smart, punishment to fit the crime). So he’s crying that he didn’t do it and I take him into his room to talk about it.

First he tells me Joey did it. Yes, Joey is back. For those of you that don’t know, Joey is his invisible friend since he was about 3, and as Jamie says, “Joey does all the bad stuff”. Personally, I think my kid may have a split personality, but that’s beside the point. After I explain to him why Joey couldn’t have done it, he gets really quiet and tells me that a bug did it. He then goes into this elaborate story of how the bug was in the green bowl and drug the brush over to the lip balm… etc etc. You get the point. By the time he was done, the bug was like 2 foot tall. No, I’m not kidding. I try to talk to him to explain to him that it’s obviously not true. He’s obviously telling a fib.

So, basically he’s standing by that story. Cryingly refusing to admit that he did it. Refuses to say anything else. It was a 2 foot tall bug that did it. Period. So, he’s obviously lying or trying to cover for Cassie, if she did it. Here I am, trying to figure out what to do now. I mean, I want to get through to him that he can’t destroy his sister’s property because something is happening that he doesn’t like, but HOW do I do that when I can’t get him to own up to the lie?

… and people wonder why I’m so crazy…