siblings - what things do they do to/with each other that warms your heart?

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DS's 1 and 2 have just been having their dinner and were on dessert of fromage frais when the phone rang - i took the call and came back to find ds1 who is 2.5 feeding his little brother the rest of his fromage frais rather than eating his own! It was lovely to see and just thought this would be a nice thread!

These are so unbelievably sweet, I always say to dh that the real magic is seeing ds1 and ds2's relationship develop.

Whenever either of them gets hurt the other one goes up to the table/chair/whatever caused the hurt and says, "naughty naughty why did you hurt my db"name", don't do it again".

Ds1 always removes ds2's shoes and coat whenever we come home from somewhere.

That look of adoration from ds2 when he's mindlessly following ds1 around and that look of pride on ds1's face when ds2 does something new - it's magic.

DS 2.4yrs and DD 9wks are soo sweet together. Tonight they both went to bed at the same time but we could hear DS talking via DDs monitor. He was in her room standing by the cot talking to her through the bars and she was cooing back to him and grinning. It was soooooooooo lovely to see [and hear first]!!
He adores his little sister and tries to calm her if she cries or first thing in the morning he runs into her room and shouts good morning hannah wake up..lol

Dses (3 and 5) look out for each other at school/nursery (joined) and always tell me if they've seen each other in the playground. Ds1 tells everyone that ds2 is his little brother, and last summer took an enormous 8 year old to task for shoving his brother out of the way on a slide. I actually think he was sorry he didn't think of the shoving thing first, but it was sweet anyway.

My DS (6) is incredibly excited about the birthday present he has chosen for DD (nearly4) in fact so excited that I fear he will tell her what he bought (a tiara for her princess party!) before the big day.

mine (dds 5 and 3) give each otehr an enormous kiss and hug before going into school, every morning, without fail.

When ds1(nearly 4) is at nursery school and ds2 (19m) is having a nap at home, the first thing ds2 says when he wakes up is 'bruvva?'. Similarly, the first time I had ds2 in nursery and ds1 on my own, ds1 kept saying 'shall we go and fetch my brother now?' One time I took ds2 to his day nursery and he thought we were going to fetch ds1, so he got all upset and kept saying 'this way', 'this way' because we were walking the other way.

Occasionally they are both in the day nursery together and ds2 opens the gate to his area and says 'bye' to the staff because he wants to go and visit ds1.

If ds1 is crying ds2 says 'bruvva sad' and tries to cheer him up, even if it was his fault in the first place.

My 3y twin boys fight like lunatics most of the time, but yesterday at their football class on of them fell over and the other ran over and helped him up and then gave him a big hug and was rubbing his back just like I do. Sweet!!

My ds's are 4 and 22 months and it's only in the last few months that ds1 has started to not loathe and detest ds2... So it's lovely when I catch them hugging or, what makes my heart melt is when I'm telling ds2 off, ds1 will come to his rescue and tell me I'm naughty for shouting at ds2! Bless...!

I was in tears on Valentine's Day. DD (11) helped DS2 (8) make a card for his "girlfriend" then DS1 (12) went cycling with DS2 and posted it for him through the letterbox. Not many teenagers who would do that. Little things like that make all the noise worth it.

DS scraped his nose today, screaming I put him in buggy. DD climbed in with him, sang "Twinkle Twinkle" to him until he calmed down & we soon had a harmony going. Awwwwww....

When the baby cries, her three year old brother lays beside her and says" don't cry baby, Ian is here, baby don't cry". I have to get her settle fast though as he gets upset if she keeps crying despite his efforts.