Different Personalities ; Alec

When he was little (and even now to some extent), Alec was a joiner. Alec didn’t like being by himself. He always wanted to be in the middle of whatever was going on. Steve and I would sit on the sofa together and before we knew it, Alec was there climbing up on our laps or burrowing in between us. We have a video of my holding Logan and there is Alec on the floor just crying like crazy because he isn’t being held. Next view is of me holding both of them! Our parents always wanted to cuddle with the boys, no problem getting that from Alec. No problem getting hugs and kisses from him too.

Alec never liked to watch TV by himself. He always wanted someone else in the room with him. And if he wasn’t watching TV, then he wanted a book read to him. Alec still likes having books read to him, but he also loves reading to himself. He has become a reading maniac, reading way above grade level. One thing Alec did like doing alone was coloring. Alec could sit for hours coloring one picture after another. He learned very early how to color inside the lines and keep it neat and tidy.

With Alec always wanting to be around people, you would naturally assume he would have many friends. He does have friends, but only a few very close ones. Alec seems to like forming a friendship and spending lots of time on that one person. He is a friendly person and can talk with anyone, but is very particular about who he spends a lot of time with. He wouldn’t admit this out loud, but I think his best friend is his brother. When they were little, Alec did a lot of things for his brother like talking for him. He probably thought since he was the oldest, he should take charge of things.

When the boys were around 2 years old, Alec decided that all the toys were his to be in charge of. A toy would lie around for days and no one would play with it. Logan would pick it up and start playing with it and Alec would take it away. Logan would cry and we would try to distract him with another toy. We couldn’t figure out why Logan would just hand over these toys to Alec and had to have many talks about this (with both boys). Near as we could figure, Alec thought the toys were all his and it was up to him to decide what Logan could and could not play with.

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