My ds, aged 22months has been going to the same childminder since he was 9months old. She is a mum of three school aged children and also minds 2 other little guys. One is 3 and the other just turned 2. This morning I dropped ds off, and carried his bag into her kitchen, ds ran into her kitchen, the 3yr old (C) got down off his chair and ran to my ds and hugged him and kissed his cheek, then the 2yr old (R)came from the playroom, hugged and kissed my ds (who hugged them both back as tight as he could whilst going Ahhhahhh) and they all took hands, with ds in the middle and plodded off to play with tractors!
It did my heart good to see how he is such good friends with these little guys he spends 3 days a week with, just thought I would share!!