Wonder Pets, Cain and Abel and the "Uda Bruda"

First: if you haven't already, you must read about the Wonder Pets or you'll be lost.
Second: since the day the boys exited the womb, for some reason Anna has seemed to prefer Jack to Thomas.

This has gotten a bit better over time. When the boys were four months old or so Anna greeted them one morning with the following exchange:

[Anna runs over to Jack in the bouncy seat]
"Jack, how you doin'?"
"You're doin' gooooooood."

[Anna runs over to Thomas on the changing table]
"Thomas, how are you feeling?"
"You're feeling baaaaaaaaad."

I assure you, nothing that blatant happens now. Now it is more like: When the boys are in their stroller, Anna always puts Jack's sun shade down so that the sun won't get into his eyes.
She always insists that Thomas' has to remain up--not so concerned about his eyes, evidently.

At any rate, there is definitely this kind of good brother-bad brother thing going on and I'm not sure why.

Which brings us to Wonder Pets. The Wonder Pets are Ming-Ming the duckie, Tuck the turtle, and Linny (known in our household as Winnie) the guinea pig. Ming-Ming is Anna's favorite; she is Ming-Ming, and will sometimes ask you to address her as such if you mistakenly call her "Anna". I am Tuck. Jack is Winnie.

When I asked her which Wonder Pet Thomas was, I kind of hoped that I would get bumped from the lineup, Thomas would take my place, and that the three Jamison children would together live an idyllic superhero double life.

She let me know that Thomas wasn't a Wonder Pet.

So I told her I wouldn't be one without all my children, and she needed to make one up.

And that is how Thomas' Wonder Pet came to be called Winnie to Winnie. I am not sure of the spelling, nor what exactly it means. Maybe it is actually Winnie 2 Winnie, indicating some kind of rank below Jack? Your guess is as good as mine.

Poor Thomas: he's the uda bruda...