»Moooooom!«
Noemi shouted through the house.
Isabella arrived a moment later in the nursery where Noemi was staring into Matthews crib where the newborn slept.
»Yes, dear?«, Isabella asked.
»He won't play hide and seek with me,« she said pouting.
»Oh baby girl … he cant. He's to little for such games,« Isabella told her daughter.
»But I wanna play,« Noemi said and gripped the side of the crib shaking it.
Isabella snatched her hands away from it and pulled her from the room.
»No, Noemi. You do NOT shake your baby brother. You could hurt him severely with it,« she said seriously.
Noemi just looked at her.
»I wouldn't have to shake him if he would play with me,« Noemi pouted.
»No, Noemi. You do not ever shake a baby. They could get just as sick as mommy did after her accident. Do you want that? Do you want to spend so much time at the hospital again?«, she asked.
Isabella had a hard time to keep calm. She knew Noemi had no malicious intent with what she was doing. She was just frustrated because she didn't get her way.
»But I wanna play,« Noemi screamed.
Isabella sighed and put her into time out for ten minutes.
Later she talked to Noemi again, making her promise to not shake any baby ever before playing hide and seek with her like the toddler wanted.