No one loves you like your sister...

On Thursday, Emily and I had a little heart to heart about the state of siblings in our house. As crazy as it may seem I am still always imagining how great another child would be even though we currently have a 3 1/2 year old and a ten month old.

We are lucky to have such great kids and I love them so much that I am sure that numbers three and four would be nice too. Eric is more able to live in the moment, and at this moment we are very busy with two.

Anyway, the conversation went a little something like this:

Me: So, Em, what do you think that the right number of kids is for our family is? Do you think that the two that we have is enough or do you think that we should have another one or two?

Emily: (After some thought) I think one.

Me: One more kid?

Emily: No, I think that one kid is the right number for our family.

Me: So, how, exactly, do you think that would work since our family already has two kids?

Emily: (After a little thought) We could get rid of one of them.

Me: Which one do you think that we should get rid of?

Emily: (After quite a bit of thought) I think that we should get rid of the one that can't talk yet.

Me: Claudia? You just want to get rid of your sister? What would we do with her?

Emily: We could give her away. The Berryhills would take her. (This is, technically true. Our friend, Megan, and actually most any member of her family would be happy to take Claudia. But that's not really the problem.)

Me: Do you think that anyone in our family would miss Claudia would miss her if she were gone? Wouldn't you miss her?

Emily: (Thinks for a little while.) No. (Thinks again.) Well, maybe Uncle Brant would miss her. We should call and ask him.

So we did. Brant assured Emily that he would miss Claudia terribly if we gave her away, but Emily still asked to call Megan and leave a message on her machine. So Megan came home to this on her home answering machine.

Me: Meg? It's Kate. Emily was thinking that one kid was the right number for our family and so she was wondering if you could take Claudia for us.

Emily: (In the background.) Can you come get her? Can you get her right after lunch? How about now?

Happily, although she offered, Meg never did come get Claudia and Emily has thought better of the plan.

For now.