These two are the closest in age out of my children. There is 16 months between them, but when they were little it felt like less. Finn had a difficult start and took longer to meet some of his initial milestones which meant he was still very much a baby when Cora arrived. They grew up together and they have had a special relationship since very early on.
As toddlers they were so close but things inevitably changed when Finn started school and the age gap between them seemed to grow hugely in that year. Now they are both at school in year 1 and 2 and I can see such a difference between them but when you get them away from it, their special relationship is still there and they can be the best of friends.
I like to take just the two of them out sometimes to encourage it. With the bigger boys around, Finn is desperate to be one of them, but when these two are on their own, they play so well, they encourage and share and are back to being the best of friends. We love the woodlands but to get to a decent sized area we have to drive quite a way, so we visit this tiny woodlands in our town to play amongst the trees and set up our swing.
I loved listening to their conversations, watching them play and connect and be close again. The age gap between them looks bigger than ever as one is shooting up at an amazing speed and one is growing much more slowly, the academic gap grows with school but I hope they will always have a special relationship as brother and sister.
These pictures are from a little trip out this week. The bigger two had friends over so I took these two out for a few hours, to the tiny woods and then the park and I realised how much I missed time with just them.