Best Frienemies!

Rylee and her BFF, Maddie, are in the same class this year. Also in her class is Gus, the lil' boy that Rylee said was her boyfriend last year because his hair is like her daddy's. Well, Gus is now both Rylee AND Maddie's "boyfriend" and it's gotten intense between the two girls.

Yesterday, Maddie came over to play before dance. The girls were in their dress up stuff and we're pretending that Gus was there. They started to bicker a bit about who Gus was going to marry and why. Gus was going to marry Rylee because her dress was white and Gus likes white. Gus was going to to marry Maddie because her dress was pink and he likes pink. They didn't break out into a screaming fight, just were bickering - like friends or even married couples do (I know of a few married couples who bicker like this that I could use as prime examples!) and it wasn't anything I was concerned over too much. Yesterday, my concern was more over Rylee becoming such a control freak when she is with her friends and wanting everything to be the way she wants it to be and not being as willing to share her things with her friends. We chatted that out lastnight and I thought we were good...

Today, Steffani and I are waiting to pick up the girls and Ms. Julie keeps sending out other kids to their parents ahead of us. Jokingly, Steffani and I say something about us being in trouble. We weren't in trouble, but close enough! Ms. Julie pulled each of us into a room one at a time to inform us that today Rylee and Maddie were fighting over a boy - Gus. Today though, it had gotten physical and the girls were tugging and pulling at each other's shirts. Ms. Julie had to take the two aside and talk to them about it.

Needless to say, I'm at a loss at the moment! It's like I told Steff as we were walking out, I didn't think I would deal with this type of stuff until AT LEAST Middle School! I asked Rylee about it in the car on the way home and she said that her and Maddie both wanted to be behind Gus in line. My response was that one of them should have been infront of him and the other behind him, but of course, today he was the "Line Leader!"

So, what about Rylee and Maddie? Back to being the best of friends when we picked them up!

The joys of parenting!