Growing up with three brothers

4  year old picture of my brothers and

 

 Being the oldest sibling to three brothers I can be considered the “bossy one”. Everyone has a different experience with their siblings. I can honestly say so far, I have had a great experience with my brothers.  Even though sometimes I feel like they are extra mean to me specifically. I am glad I have the brothers that I have. They are the best people I know and I am glad I am stuck with them.

 

Being the only girl also affects how we interact. Most of the time they are wrestling, being like a second mom to them I find myself yelling at them to cut it out. I would like to say I tell them to stop because I’m concerned for their safety. In reality I nag them because I am trying to watch Greys Anatomy and they are too loud. With boys you also fart jokes, video games, and food wars. With my brothers in particular we are big video game nerds. We grew up on Pokémon and Mario Kars. My brothers weren’t into sports like other guys are. So when the other cousins were outside playing football, we were inside playing Super Smash brothers and other fun video games! Being the geeks we were when we were younger we weren’t the most popular kids around. However, when we got older people started to actually like all of the nerdy things that my brothers and I enjoyed growing up. So I really enjoyed that we were able to experience that together. Playing video games with my brothers is also my favorite part of everyday! We have such good clean fun and rarely fight believe it or not. Aside our trash talk that we do to throw the others off from a racing game, we are pretty harmless siblings!

An even older picture of us playing the Nintendo 64! 

 

When you have three boys in the house it is important to be able to keep up and toughen up! If I want food I have to get some before they come along. I jokingly call us all savages when food is around because we fight over every bite. We also only have one restroom so after getting home it is a run to the restroom. Being the only girl I always get to be the one to use it first, score! Another way that I have had to adapt to my brothers is my having to adapt to their sense of humor. Yes, this means fart jokes. Now I find myself being a 23-year-old female who still laughs at fart jokes because it is all I have ever known. This is also why I have more of a man’s type of sense of humor.

These are all aspects of how my brothers have molded the person I am. How I have impacted their lives, or shaped who they are today. Even though I am just the older sister and not their mother, when I am in charge I tend to be extremely strict. I don’t let them watch whatever they want on television, and I make sure they do their chores. I am an education and History Major so I am always telling my brothers about our countries past. I go on about our educational system and about other cultures. I really like to believe that I teach my brothers a few things to some extent. I want them to grow up to be good people, good educated people. What are they like now? I think they are the best siblings any girl could ever ask for.

 

                                                          A funny video of my brothers and I.

Music: Song: You Always Make Me Smile by Kyle Andrews