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Matty practicing his moves. |
One area in particular where they are defiantly different is walking. Matty at 11 months is already moving with
some success by his own two feet. He’s
no marathoner by any means, but he is motivated to see all and to be near all ~ and
has the bumps and bruises to prove it!
I laugh as he pushes his walker around the house. How he looks now, is how he’ll look as an old man: walker, diapers, missing teeth, eating mushy food, and difficulty in communicating. (And as a total flirt he’ll be chasing all the nurses in the home.) I don’t need to be alive to see it then , I totally see it now.
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A shared love - the swings!. |
So this major difference is easy to draw upon, Matty is our bulldog and Will is our steady (birth order anyone??). I think it will be my duty to keep looking at their differences and celebrating them. I’m sure it is hard for siblings, especially of the same gender, to be champions in their own realm. I remember two brothers, 1 year apart, who attended the high school where I used to work. The older brother, the athlete, was accepted at a division 1 football school, the younger brother, the musician, accepted to the Berkley School of Music. Those parents knew what they were doing; too bad I don’t have their number!
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As they age, I will try to remind myself that each is their own man (and not just my little men) and that they will grow in ways that makes sense to them, if not necessary to me. My job is to support and help them discover their individual talents and traits that will make for a happy life and provide them those great stories to share in the old folks home.
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