I just read a column about this in a newspaper - apparently it doesn’t even occur to young kids to map one marriage onto another like that? But if she does ask, “will Mommy and Daddy not live together one day,” you can say, “that’s not the plan!”
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Oh don’t even get me started on the “allergy table” - kids have overlapping/nonoverlapping allergies and it’s sort of ridiculous in addition to being stigmatizing.
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Supposedly short-ish men have dating luck with very tall women, who are “always going to be taller anyway” so it doesn’t bother them?
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Imagine being 2 inches shorter than your twin!
That’s the situation with my granddaughters. Twin B is tall. She’s the tallest girl in the JK and the second tallest person in the class. Twin A is not tall and slightly below average height for 5 YO girls.
The funny part: Twin B was tiny, tiny when she was born. Full term, but weighed only 5 lbs. Twin A was almost a full pound heavier.
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One doesn’t know about how things go – another gal and I were the shortest in the class for a long time - when sitting for First Communion photo the two of us were the only ones not touching the ground with our feet. Going into 8th grade I was 4’10” and entering 9th grade I was 5’2”. By the end of HS I was almost 5’8” as I continued to grow in height - the other gal stayed at about 5’2” or so. My mom was only 5’2” but I took after my dad’s height. My sisters are both about 5’5” and I am taller than both of my brothers.
My younger daughter stopped in growth during middle school and is maybe 5’5”, while my older daughter is 5’9”. DH is 6’3” and his brothers are 5’11”, 6’2” and 6’4” - their parents are not tall (mother maybe 5’5” and dad 5’8”) but the maternal granddad was tall like DH and his brothers.
Oh, I know genetics can be a mixed bag! When our kids were young, there was a formula where you doubled their height at, I think 18 or 24 months to get their adult height. With that formula, my son should have been 6’1”, he is 6”, and my daughter was estimated to be 5’9” and is just shy or 5’10”, so pretty accurate for my 2!
My GD, besides being short, is also very thin, so petite all around. Once when seeing the pediatric PA for something, my daughter was given a printout on foods to help with weight gain. My D took one look at the list and told the PA she couldn’t eat most of these foods as she is allergic to dairy and eggs. If you saw the child eat, you would expect her to be heavier, but she eats healthy, and the calories fall off of her!
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My S didn’t lose his first tooth until he was in third grade! He lost it on the soccer field at practice, and every one of his teammates helped search until they found it - they weren’t about to let him lose a tooth that took so long to leave his mouth.
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I had one early tooth loser, and one very late tooth loser, but she was also very late to get her teeth. In fact, I was so worried at 15 months that she had NO teeth that I asked the doctor about it. The doctor said “I can order an xray if you want, but I’ve never had a patient with NO teeth.” She got her first tooth at 16 months, and lost her first tooth at 7 or 8, in second grade.
The other one came to me at 2.5 with all her teeth, and the dentist thought she was perhaps 3.5 years old because of her ‘teeth age.’ She started losing them at about 4 years old and they were all gone (although some pulled) by age 8. Braces on and off before age 9. She now has beautiful teeth.
My twin nephews are 2 or 3 inches apart. The shorter one is stout, and the taller one very slim which probably makes him look taller.
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My twin nieces are 5 or 6 inches apart. The SHORTER one is at least 5’8”.
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LOL! This is exactly what the pediatrician said to me when D1 was 13 months old and had no teeth.
D was late to get all her teeth, adult as well as baby teeth. (Her wisdom teeth didn’t come in until she was 24.) The delay actually turned out to be a good thing. Both Dh and I had a lot of orthodontic work done because our teeth were crowded and crooked. We assumed that our kids would need braces too, but because D1’s adult teen came when she was older and her mouth had grown, she needed ZERO orthodontic work and her teeth were almost perfectly straight. (She had a 1° overbite which the orthodontist said they don’t treat unless it 3° or greater)
Her sister, however…
And Twin B’s dentist has already told D1 that Twin B will need an palate expander when she’s bit older because her teeth are very tight
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D1 facetimed me yesterday while GD was eating her sweet potatoes for lunch. They just started feeding her solid foods. It was so much fun to watch GD try to get the spoon to her mouth. D1 has been so wonderful about facetiming most days so I get to see what GD is doing. Two weeks from today we will all be together in Charlotte so D1 and SIL can attend a wedding and H and I get lots of time with GD!
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GD and I did Face Time. She connected and had her mouth open to show me she lost her first tooth. She was 5 in December.
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GD2 is 18 months. She knows me now on phone and facetime. The other I spoke with D1 on speaker, GD2 was in another room, but came running out when she heard my voice. D1 had just hung up on me. GD2 kept on pointing to the phone to have her mom put me back on.
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I got a last minute text this morning asking if I was free for an event at the preschool. My daughter needed to take the two year old to the doctor and my daughter wasn’t going to be able to attend. I surprised the four year old and I got the biggest hug. It was fun seeing him sing and listen intently to the story being told about Passover. Next week I’ll participate in a Passover grandparent event.
I’m very lucky to have three out of four grands local.
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That’s awesome! We’re going to DS/DDIL/GS for Passover, too. I bought way too many Pesach gifts.
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@fretfulmother -buying way too many gifts is a grandparents job.
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The wooden toy/walker arrived this week at GD’s house. It is an Easter present from H and I to her. I asked D1 yesterday if GD had tried it out yet. D1 said no as she has to wait until Easter!
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Is that a gift giving holiday?
My grandmother always bought our Easter outfits - dresses, a spring coat, church shoes, a hat and purse. Often I had to wear my sister’s hand me down dress or coat, but always got shoes and a purse.
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What gifts did you find for Passover?
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Yes! I think many traditional Jewish families shift the gift-giving from Chanukah (which traditionally really isn’t, except for its proximity to Christmas) to Passover, which has the afikomen gifts and those can be expanded. (The afikomen gift is technically a bribe to get the last piece of matza back from the children to finish the seder.)
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