Who Made Who

Amazing Similarities

I am continually surprised by both of the girls and the traits that they picked up from both Angela and me. I know that traits are passed on between parents and children but to see the traits divided among the two makes me scratch my head. Here are a couple of examples...

Alex is so much like her mother that sometimes it's like looking at twins. I guess it's a first born thing. Alex is very detail orientated and a list maker. We haven’t quite figured out how to channel the list making into anything but hopefully professional lister will happen soon. She’ll make list of pretty much anything. Names, places, books it doesn’t matter. I’m not talking about a little list; I’m talking about a couple of pages, front and back stapled together. I don’t get it. However, I see where it came from pretty much everyday. It came straight from my beautiful bride. Whose list making isn’t to the same extreme as Alex but she makes them. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind the list that Angela makes. It helps out more than ever.

On the other hand there is dear sweet Emma. She is a fly by the seat of your pants type girl who can make a mess to bring Mr. Clean to his knees. She’s happy go lucky and can get over things that go wrong pretty quickly. She is the polar opposite of both Angela and Alex. I can see so much of myself in Emma that it is scary. If I was half of the kid that Emma is I don’t know how my parents kept their sanity. I can definitely see me doing a lot of the stuff that she does. Emma is a ham, she puts on a show like she’s always on stage. She makes it seem like she’s shy but you can tell she wants you to watch her perform.