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Every day, Tony will crawl down the hallway towards our room. Every day he will stop at Jack’s door and look in. Every day he will make a “Hey” noise, and wait for a response. Only on Wednesdays and every other weekend does he crawl like a madman into the room and climb up his brother. Every other day, he crawls on into our room. You can tell he’s disappointed when Jack isn’t there.

Tony loves his brother. It’s reciprocated, just not in as visible of a way. Jack asks about Tony all the time, about his foot, if he’s walking yet, if he talking yet, so on. He always seems interested in his brother, but not like Tony is with him. Tony lights up when Jack’s around. He’s like the little terrier in the cartoon that follows the Spike the bulldog around like he’s the messiah. Tony is fascinated with all things Jack. And Jack is pretty crazy about that little Binja as well.

I worry that Jack is going to start to resent Tony…the fact that he “gets” to live with us, and Jack, only part time. So far we haven’t seen evidence of that, but I’m waiting. Hopefully Jack will prove me wrong. Maybe they will always have a great brother relationship. It just seems unlikely to me.

I leave you with this cartoon…I’ll let you guess which one is which.


P.S.
This is one of the few Sylvester cartoons I like…No Tweety Bird.


Posted in Part Time Father on August 29th, 2008

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