December 09, 2003
Ouch!
Root canal treatment today, so I don't feel like posting. Here's a picture, though. As a fond mother, I naturally assume that everybody loves to look at pictures of my kids. Call me biased, I plead guilty.
Oh, they're adorable. As another fond mother, I assure you I enjoy looking at them, too.
No one will EVER mistake them for not being brothers!
Posted by: Laura Gallagher at December 9, 2003 03:21 PMAwwww, thank you.
Now go and have your baby, the suspense is killing me! In a few weeks you can then tell me how it is to have three.
:-))
Claudia, idly wondering
Posted by: claudia at December 9, 2003 04:38 PMThree? Two are always in alliance against the third, except when three temporarily go into alliance against parents, whom they then outnumber.
First child tends to delude a parent into thinking s/he now understands "children". Second child overturns about 99% of those expectations. Third child will surprise that some traits DO repeat, (particularly ones that mimic traits from a parent) but not the ones you expect and CERTAINLY not in any useful or predictable fashion. (On the other hand, parents become rather calloused to surprises ... "Oh, he's playing with cat poop out of the litter box? Well, the elder-sibs never did THAT but their little dam building game in the raw sewage flow was probably worse and both of 'em survived..." )
Middle child then becomes sort of bi-modal: at some times whining and crying and reprising "baby" mode to extreme, in competition with the youngest; at other times being bossy and protective and jealous of big-sibling prerogatives. The frequency is ... hmm. Hang a bucket of sand on a rope from a pivot about three stories above street level. The period of such a pendulum about matches the mode-swings. Adjust the length of the rope as needed to better fit the periodicity of your particular middle child.
Of course, all the above is based upon a single ongoing experiment of sample size = 3 -- an experiment still in process of peer-review prior to publication. Take it for what it's worth.
Posted by: Pouncer at December 9, 2003 06:22 PMBut they are gorgeous children! Who WOULDN'T want to look at them?
(PS, sorry to hear about your root canal. Hope it heals up quickly.)
Posted by: Susan Crites at December 9, 2003 07:13 PMClaudia: what a great photo--they are absolutely beautiful and thanks for posting them...
Hope you recover quickly from root canal...doesn't sound like fun.
Love,
Sheila