A little explanation about personalities....

I have a lot of people ask me questions about the twins. Are they fraternal? Do they fight? Do they differ in personalities? Well the above picture answers them all. Completely, perfectly, to a T!!! Everyday is like an episode of The Odd Couple playing out in my family room.

Everything about them is different! How on earth they managed to be in the same womb for 8 months is beyond me! To be honest they never really liked being next to each other and now I understand why.

First we have Grant. Grant plays the role as the neat one. The anal one. The one who today decided mama's cell phone needed a good cleaning so he took the dish scraper brush to it. Was it wet you ask??? OH YES IT WAS!!! Is it the only phone we have in the house??? OH YES IT IS!! And mama was not happy one bit! Luckily for the white haired child all turned out just fine. I was able to take the blow dryer to it in time before any of the water got too deep. I called Jon to make sure it works and after hanging up I realized I forgot to tell him something. I called back immediately only to have Jon answer with "YEP IT WORKS." I got the feeling he would've rather seen the phone die a morbid death!

Back to the original point. Grant has always been like this. He would spend a very long time making sure all of his matchbox cars lined up perfectly and if anyone would happen to bump them out of line....watch out! He loves to clean up the family room....even though his idea of cleaning up is to get everything off the floor and onto the coffee table. I'm not complaining though it's less bending over that I have to do.

So if Grant is the neat and tidy one you can only guess who the messy, disorganized, feel more comfortable living in a pig pen kinda kid is......you guessed it Cooper!!
Everything about Cooper is messy......right down to his hair! That child I swear would feel more at home and at ease if I never cleaned up (which is good because there is many days that I don't). And it down right bugs Grant. Even the way they draw pictures is opposite. Cooper is happy to draw little circular squiggle lines all over the paper whereas Grant will draw straight lines. Cooper is content to throw on a pair of orange gym shorts with a red long sleeve button down corduroy shirt and Grant can pick out a perfectly matched outfit every time. In fact if Grant can't find anything that matches he get really upset. Cooper loves to help clean up though....only his idea of doing it is to tell Grant where things are and where they should go but he won't lift a finger!

So as much of a difference there is between the two of them it really seems to help them get along better with each other. They really seem to balance each other out. They know each others roles in life and they're okay with it. So there isn't much competition at this point in life and I can only hope that remains.

Only time will tell but I can already see a little accountant and garbage man in my future.

*okay not really about the garbage man thing. I do hope for a better life than that for my children but I had to get the point across.....right?

Hope all is well with you. Sorry for the delay in posts summer has gotten the best of me!