Twin Bond

When all of the stuff with Callie happened my first reaction was"How do we explain this to Hunter?". He is after all her twin brother and probably her biggest protector, but he also has Aspergers and doesn't normally respond well to change. When we talked to the kids we made sure to watch his face and see if he was doing any of his little "ticks" that he tends to do before exploding. Nothing happened, he just sat there in silence and didn't say a word. After all the kids went to play we talked to Hunter alone and he said he was okay because "Noah was always a girl". That was the moment we realized our little man understood it better than most adults, probably because of his Aspergers, he knew that nothing was changing in the end and recognized that. We thought everything was going fine until school started. The preschool teacher had a very difficult time realizing Callie is in fact a girl and often made her play on the boys' team. That didn't set well with Hunter, he flipped out. He told the teacher off-probably my fault I told him to protect his sister and always stand up for her-and the teacher handled it terribly. Hunter isn't one of those kids who you can just put in time out and all is good in the world, he hasn't learned how to comprehend what is going on, we're working on that now, but for a situation like the one with his teacher he really didn't think he did anything wrong, he was just listening to what I had told him. As much I wanted to yell at my son for being rude to his teacher, I couldn't. I was a bad parent, I sided with my son on this one. This was simply just a loving brother with a huge twin bond with his sister. Their bond is honestly one of the most amazing things I have ever witnessed. Hunter has told us many times that if anyone ever hurts Callie he's going to kick their butts and apparently it's the truth. I am so grateful to know that my little girl has someone like her brother to protect her and have her back no matter what's going on in life. I can't wait to see what these two little ones do as they get older because I can already tell it's going to be awesome.