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For a long time, I didn't notice huge differences betwixt C together with O. There were differences betwixt them, such every bit O favors his passey to a greater extent than than C, C wants y'all to assist him stand upward or "walk" to a greater extent than than O, together with the noises each baby makes are different-- O tends to brand rumbly machine sounding noises piece C prefers screeching similar a joyful banshee. All of our boys were together with thus similar. When D was a babe he would brand a racket together with run across who was watching him, which C together with O both do, e'er waiting for the laugh. Absolutely everything goes inward their mouths; fifty-fifty at nowadays at iii I volition grab D chewing on things. They all dear their blankets; these Little Giraffe blankets nosotros select for all iii of them that select larn known every bit "Batcho blankets," or just "Batcho" inward our house. If someone is crying or tired or feeling cuddly, Batcho is e'er needed. And all of them are just busy. They desire to run across what happens if they driblet a toy. Now D wants to why something happens the means it does. They are rattling interested inward how the globe around them works, rattling much similar their father. So when people would inquire me, "What are their dissimilar personalities?", it was difficult to answer. Not only exercise all iii boys hold back just similar each other-- C together with O hold back similar lilliputian copies of D-- but C together with O constantly remind me of D every bit an infant. Sometimes it is unsettling how much C together with O hold back together with deed similar D, peculiarly when they are dressed inward D's mitt me downs. My hubby together with I joke that nosotros select a "baby mold," making babe boys that all hold back together with deed similar each other.

Now that C together with O are one-year olds together with very interested inward beingness active, I've noticed some differences. C reminds me the most of D. He is always, always, e'er doing something. If y'all select him seated together with strapped inward a highchair, he volition purpose his hands to brand airheaded sounds amongst his mouth, "Oo, oo, oo, oo!" When I laid him down, he hits the set down crawling, unremarkably to somewhere he knows he shouldn't be, similar if I left the garage door open, or a babe gate isn't latched all the way. We bought the boys a lilliputian Fisher Price slide for their offset birthday. C dedicates his fourth dimension trying to figure out how to climb upward the slide. And just similar D, C knows how to walk, he just doesn't believe it yet. He marches all around the household pushing his lilliputian Chicco walker, standing independently to stand upward it dorsum upward if he knocks it over, or lifting it upward to buy the farm through a babe gate. As shortly every bit he notices he is standing on his own, he volition carefully lower himself to the floor. Just similar D, he is hot or cold, all or nothing. He is either dedicating his fourth dimension to figuring out how to opened upward my pocketbook or he completely ignores it. He is either tired or he wants to play, no inward between. There is no lilliputian fussing amongst him; he is either happy or crying. Unlike D, C volition boundary headfirst into a situation. He wants to know what y'all are doing, where y'all are going, together with he's going to hold upward inward the middle of it. At the kids' play areas, I laid him downwards together with he's off! Crawling correct into the middle of the kids together with climbing upward the side of the pirate ship.

When D was a toddler, I noticed that he was a watcher. Before he would climb inward the sandbox, he would scout the other kids to run across what they were doing. That way, he would know just what to exercise 1 time he decided to larn in. As busy every bit he was (and nonetheless is), he e'er does this hold back dorsum to brand sure as shooting that his momma is nonetheless nearby. O is rattling much similar that. He loves to sit down dorsum together with run across what everyone is doing, surveying the whole situation, earlier he moves inward on what he wants to do. I volition come upward inward the play room to respect him doing his ain O thing, pushing a machine across the flooring piece making "car noises" every bit his brothers wrestle over the Fisher Price lawn mower. After his brothers select both abandoned the toy for something to a greater extent than interesting, he crawls over to investigate what all the fuss was about. He gets rattling fixated on 1 thing, playing amongst the same toy all solar daytime for a yoke weeks. Being a one-year old, C's involvement volition larn peaked when he sees O having together with thus much fun amongst a toy. Of course of written report he crawls over to investigate, which highly offends O. He is rattling happy amongst his 1 toy together with doesn't desire anything else, or his brothers taking it away from him. I run across him quietly running his ain experiments, finding out how things function without the wildness of his older brothers. Unlike both D together with C, O has a lot of middle ground. If he's tired, he'll crawl over to residual his caput inward my lap or sleepily seek out his passey to sit down quietly inward the corner of the play room. His brothers, on the other hand, play, play, play together with volition outburst out inward tears every bit shortly every bit it is past times nap time, falling asleep forthwith inward their beds. O reminds me a lot of my sister, my middle sister, who was e'er caught inward betwixt the extremes of her older together with younger sisters.

And of course, the master copy boy, D man. He has e'er been busy. He e'er wants to hold upward inward the middle of the action, but watching, non business office of the action. He loves his Batcho blanket. When nosotros buy the farm to the medico for shots, he keeps Batcho closed inward his adorable D way. He is non rattling graceful, oft tripping over his ain feet, though he tries rattling difficult to hold upward Kung Fu Panda or Hercules. He asks me a meg questions, "What are the words to this song? Do y'all demand to a greater extent than gas inward your van? Why is my blood brother crying again?" After I learn him a song, he'll alter the lyrics to what he's doing, "Sweet domicile Alabama, where my brothers are too, sweetness domicile Alabama, at that topographic point are sippy cups for you!" I'm e'er impressed that a shaver of mine tin select rhythm. I'll run across him at AWANAS, tapping his pes away to the trounce of the song. He's rattling involved inward his brothers' well-being. When they are having a fussy nap fourth dimension or teething troubles, he'll deport around the babe monitor together with tell me when they are crying, bursting inward tears if I tell I'm going to permit them fuss for a minute, "But they are distressing together with desire their momma!" He tin hold upward rattling bossy amongst his brothers, insisting they only play amongst sure as shooting toys or rest inward the play room. D is rattling literal. If I tell him non to boundary off the stair, he volition boundary off his stool, saying, "But I didn't boundary off the stair!" He has sure as shooting ways he wants to exercise things together with sometimes has problem listening the offset time, instead preferring to re-create what he saw y'all doing (like typing on a reckoner or opening a closet he's non allowed to hold upward in). He is extremely observant together with volition think things weeks later y'all said or did them, "But, Momma, Daddy puts his caput phones inward this drawer!"


All of them dear their granny, my grandmother, their great-grandmother. They e'er select big smiles together with lots of cuddles for her, peculiarly D man. D together with Granny select a special bond, a funny means of doing things together that I can't assist but respect adorable. The iii of them dear laughing. They dear when D does something airheaded together with volition start bully up. I exercise hear them inward the play room fighting over toys, to a greater extent than oft I hear them inward hither laughing hysterically or making airheaded sounds to each other. C together with O have reached the historic menstruum where the line to sit down on the flooring amongst them and scout them play is together with thus potent that oft nosotros cease the solar daytime amongst a sink total of dingy dishes. I tin learn them all sorts of things inward 1 afternoon, how to kiss, waving, clapping, peek-a-boo, how to force a car, or dissimilar sounds that they volition repeat. D loves to learn them how to exit his toys alone... how to select him toys he dropped... how to portion their toys amongst him... I dear their dynamic correct now. As D volition say, "We are iii boys on an adventure!" D leads the charge, running out of the room, pirate sword drawn, amongst C together with O hot on his tail, crawling later him around the house.

So, yes, I select my hands full. Sometimes nosotros are trying to banking concern lucifer out at the register amongst a whiny three-year quondam and screaming one-year olds. Those days are exhausting together with I start watching the clock, counting downwards the hours until bedtime. Other days I select iii lilliputian boys, climbing into my lap to give me snuggles. D tells me that I am the best momma inward the whole broad world, piece C together with O cuddle close, giggling every fourth dimension nosotros brand oculus contact. Their precious lilliputian faces, looking at me amongst dear together with adoration are totally worth all the horrible times at the banking concern lucifer out counter, all the nights I pass comforting a babe who is throwing upward downwards my back, all the days when I can't exit the household on time. My ticker bursts amongst pride when I run across D run ahead of me to opened upward the door for someone amongst a stroller, politely saying, "Have a skillful day!" every bit she gratefully passes through an opened upward door. I select to shroud my smiling when I run across D wrangling his brothers at the soft play area, firmly telling other lilliputian kids to "watch out for the babies!" And my favorite means to cease the solar daytime volition e'er hold upward on the plant nursery floor, reading airheaded stories that rhyme for iii lilliputian men who mean value I am the best, only because I am their momma.

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