Little Old Married Couple

Spencer and Carmyn. These two kids are so incredibly cute together! They play together a lot and have developed this old married couple relationship. It has become so natural for them that it just cracks me up, but also scares me a little bit!
The other day, they were playing Hulaballoo, which is a game where you put different shaped and colored mats on the floor and the DVD tells you which one to step on. The first thing the guy says is to make sure you take your shoes off. Spencer looks down and says, "I have my shoes off already!" Then, without skipping a beat, he heads over to Carmyn who has now taken a seat on the floor, and he starts taking her boots off for her. She saw him turn to her and raised her leg up to him as if they both instantly knew what he was going to do!
On Thursday we went on a pre-school fieldtrip to the pumpkin patch. (I, being the lame mom that I am these days, didn't bring my camera.) Anyway, they had some slides there and after going down the first one, Carmyn did not want to go down the second one. Meanwhile, Spencer has been down several times and then realized that Carmyn isn't joining him. I asked her a couple of times if she wanted to go down the slide and she most definitely did not. Spencer came running over to her, out of breath, and said, "Come on, Carmyn." "No." He put his hands on his hips and told her, "It's really not scary. I already went and it's not scary at all. Come with me, I'll stay with you." And off they went. He grabbed her by the hand, led her up the stairs and then towards the top, let her go in front of him, he put his hand on her back and then ushered her to the top of the slide. My goodness! There's lots of women out there who'd appreciate that sort of treatment and a three year old girl is getting it!
I have tried really hard over the past couple of years to teach him to be a gentlemen, but I was more intending for him to practice on me! He holds doors open for her, carries her backpack into school for her, puts her shoes on, they are either walking hand-in-hand or he puts his hand on her back and leads her along, he always makes sure she is taken care of and he is very protective. They even bicker at each other at times, but rarely do they fight or make each other cry.
It's just so interesting because it comes so natural for him to treat her like a queen. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised...he has a very good example of that at home. His father is also known for treating his girl like a queen. :) I'm so grateful for the good example he shows to our children. I just had no idea his influence would have such an early effect!



I guess all of this doting can really wear a gent out!Opinion poll: I have had an ongoing internal debate about whether or not I should let this sort of behavior occur. Would you even go so far as to consider this a "relationship"? Am I crazy? I just don't want him to get in the habit of being with "a" girl and having a sort of relationship. I know that sounds silly. They are three and four and I know it's all so innocent, but I don't want it to become so natural to him that when he's older it's not so innocent. Although, they, nor I, have ever used the term "boyfriend" or "girlfriend", they can act like it, but I am also very against little kids having "boy/girlfriends", no matter how innocent it may be. I just think it teaches them too young to get into relationships and when they get older, it escalates from there. However, I do like that he is learning how to be a gentlemen, and the two of them are best of friends, they get along great and they are just so dang cute together, but, oh I don't know...I'm rambling...what would you do if you were his mom (or dad)?