Kyle as a Little Brother

   One thing Kyle is good at is being a little brother, which also means he can be a little shit sometimes. He’s my brother, so I’m allowed to call him that. He has the most evil laugh when he’s up to no good, which is quite often. His little devil horns pop right out the sides of his head.

Don't let the sweet and innocent Kyle face fool you

   When we would get into fights as kids, or if I didn’t do something he wanted me to do, he would go upstairs to my room and trash it. I had an alphabetized book shelf, and I would walk upstairs to find the books all over my room. Quite a few times I walked up there to see him throwing the clothes out of my dresser, chucking them over his head as he made a mess. Those are just a few of the times when he was just like any other little brother.

   Having two big sisters also meant being forced to do girly stuff, like play dress up or play with dolls. More than once Kyle was forced into an old flower girl dress by me and my sister, and we would play tea party or other games. My little sister painted his toenails once, and after that Kyle would always want his toes painted if we were doing ours. One day, however, Kyle decided he was going to paint his own toenails. Bright blue. He got nail polish all over the living room furniture, and we quickly had to flip all the couch cushions upside down before my mom found out we had left our nail polish where he could reach it. Of course, she found out about it, but there’s still one chair cushion she hasn’t discovered yet, and that was about 10 years ago. Sorry mom.

There's no photo evidence of Kyle in dresses, so here's him attempting to eat deep dish pizza

   Kyle’s almost never innocent, and when something goes missing, we know who it was. He used to take our shoes and toys and put them in suitcases that we could never find. Months later he would come walking out of a room in the house with this mysterious suitcase and we would find all the stuff we had usually already replaced. Quite a few times this would happen with car keys as well. I don’t think you’ll ever meet a family who has had to have so many keys made.

   His other hobby with this is electronics. He will take my phone and run around the house saying “MMMM” (that’s what he calls me), and he’ll make me chase him while he’s laughing the entire time. Or there have been quite a few times where our phone chargers have gone missing, and we’ll find them under his bed in his room or plugged into a random outlet while he tries to plug in his IPad (most of the time they’re not for the right device).

photographic evidence of Kyle taking my phone

   He can be a little stinker, but we have our cute family moments too. Kyle loves to cuddle and watch movies or sports, especially when it’s about his bed time. He does so many exciting things, and his possibilities are endless. Just because he has special needs, doesn’t make him any different as a sibling.