Personalities...

It's funny to me to watch my children and see their different personalities come to life. I think it's neat that they are the way they are, some traits taught, others learned (whether we want them to be or not) and others just come naturally.


Hailey is a firecracker. Seriously, thats how you describe her. At one moment she's calm, slightly boring, but you know she has a lot of potential. Then you light her. She is FULL of life, colorful, exciting, bright, dangerous :), and beautiful... but watch out, she will inevitably blow up. She is a lot like her father in this way. Except, I think his cycles last longer then hers. She seriously loves life, but you have to engage her. Otherwise she's just as happy sitting on the couch watching Pocohantas. But if you give her something to do, and show her how to play with it, she'll do it for hours, like playdoh, or puzzles, or coloring. Hailey has zero patience (hmm wonder where she got that from). When her sister takes a toy from her, or anything else of the sort, she is quick to yell and hit to get her back. And she is not nice about it. We're working on it. But she is over the top loving. She gives hugs and kisses without warrant. She is also a born leader. She loves to be in charge, but doesn't necessarily have to be the center of attention. She loves to help, get diapers, clean up lunch, help Aubs take diapers to the trash, get her jammies on, anything... if she knows it'll make you happy, she does it. And this last personality trait, we know she just was blessed with, because she definitely didn't get it from either of us... she is a social butterfly. She can and will make friends where ever she goes. She asks daily to go to church so she can play with friends. If we take her to the park she'll have a swarm of kids following her by the time we leave. She also is VERY adaptable. She does good everywhere we go, no matter what. Change doesn't bother her one bit. Like I said, all in all, she is definitely a firecracker.

Aubrie is a lot different then her sister. And a lot more like me. I knew I'd be cursed with a me-like child one day. The best word to describe her is unpredictable (only because it's a nicer word then temperamental). She can be up up up one minute, happy as can be, to screaming her head off, to laughing uncontrollably, all in the matter of less then a minute. This is actually happening as we "type" shes throwing a fit because she wants to wear Hailey's shoes, climbs up on me to continue her fit, sees a piece of thread on my shirt, stops her fit to intently get it off, smiles when she does, climbs down because she forgot about her fit, runs off happily, only to find another reason unbeknown to me, to start crying again. I guess the good in this is that she gets over things very easily. She does NOT hold a grudge over anything. She is also very daring. Likes to climb on anything she can to get a reaction out of me, and then jump off of it. She LOVES to be the center of attention. She'll do anything to get us to watch her instead of Hailey, even if that means whacking her upside the head. She is also very independent. Wants to do things herself. Brush her teeth herself, get dressed, eat herself, sleep by herself, no help, ever. She is also a cuddlebug though. She'll just randomly come up to you, and lay her head down on you. Or plop herself on the couch next to you and just cuddle. Aubrie is also a routine girl. She does no do well with any sort of change. She likes the familiarity of everyday life. Everyday with my baby is bound to be an adventure with her ever changing moods :).

Sorry if I totally bored everyone to tears, but I think it'll be nice to have things like this written down, so they can read it in the future and so I can see the ways they change over the years. I think it'll be interesting and fun at the same time (and possibly challenging) to see a third personality be born... what will this baby be like?