Feb here already

I was rudely awakened this morning at 6am by Reuben screaming the house down, judging by his lack of response to me and cuddles, he was dreaming and it took a good few minutes of hard crying for him to calm down which is virtually unheard of for him - he's usually the most laid back lad and hardly ever cries. Having said that, having an older brother dominating him, he's becoming very good at sticking up for himself and if that means hanging on to something for dear life and crying as loud as Leon, so be it. Yesterday he had a run in with Harriet (same age as Leon) who wanted to play with what he was playing with, he hung in there and wouldn't give it up, Harriet threw a massive 3 year old hissy fit and poor Liz ended up taking her home as it didn't look like she was going to let go. I played host to 3 other 3 year olds and their younger siblings yesterday for a pizza making party. It went down very well with the rest of the kids - from kneading the dough, then loading the pizza, then eating the pizza. Most of them ate their slice and enjoyed it. I wonder if Reuben was re-living his experience of hanging on to his favorite toy, something along those lines. I believe it's not unusual at this age (19m) to get night terrors. Leon had them for a while too, generally we'd let him ride it out, he'd cry for about 30 seconds like the world was ending then he'd be fast asleep again. With the two of them being next to each other it's more complicated as Leon is woken up too. This was different to what Leon had, so we will see what works if it carries on.