Bosom Buddies
June 20th, 2008 by Ashley
So, my dearest friend and I had our third babies three weeks apart. We always wanted to have babies together and this was my last so it was our only shot; amazingly we pulled it off without any planning;0
Anyway, these are our girls, Miss I of course and Miss J is the one with white hair. Aren’t they precious? Beautiful, sweet, angelic little girls. I love that mine is so dark and hers is so fair because it makes them look so glamorous together. Don’t they just look like little dolls? Their moms are best friends so they can be best friends. It’s PERFECT! Right?
Uh, NO! They are COMPLETE PSYCHOS. Miss I of course doesn’t like ANYONE, so she especially doesn’t want anything to do with Miss J. The only reason we got this awesome picture of them is because they were in front of the TV. When we tried to set them down next to eachother looking at the camera they both started screaming like their lives were over. There is nothing angelic about either of these girls and I know my dearest friend won’t mind me saying so.
But this is my thought: maybe it’s not their fault. They were born into COMPLETELY different families and they have TOTALLY DIFFERENT personalities, and yet, they are BOTH CRAZY. Maybe it’s beyond their control. I’ve decided to call it the Third Child Syndrome.
I just read this a few days ago, basically talking about how you build a cradle made of gold for your first baby and by the time the third one comes around you just toss them on a pile of laundry and hope no one sits on them. (Not really, but you know what I mean.)
My dearest friend and I are VERY different as moms, so the fact that our babies have the same obnoxious problems only goes to prove that it’s NOT THE BABY, it’s that nasty old birth order.
If you have a third child, I’m sure you can relate. My first child didn’t try to hit me until about six months ago, my second, probably around two and a half, but the third child….pretty much as soon as she discoverd she had arms, the swinging began. She climbs everything, she demands everything, she throws crazy fits anytime she doesn’t get what she wants… it’s just unbelievable. And Miss J is just the same; she got mad and screamed today and I swear I thought it was a four year old. It would be one thing if we could blame it on “the terrible twos” but they both just had their first birthdays so…
MAYBE, we both just happened to have very tempermental babies at the same time, and maybe they both just happened to be third children. But I doubt it. I think they were doomed from conception to be terrors. And all you can do is grin and bear it because they’re adorable, and there will always be older siblings around to make them look little, sweet and adorable.
So just keep this in mind if you are contemplating a third child; there will be fun. But there will also be more tantrums that you thought any human child was capable of.
I think my dearest friend and I will just try to focus on what they were like before the syndrome started to take effect!
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So….I’m loving your little blurb about the babies…but I am thinking that my miss J is not a 3rd child and she fits all the characteristics! What gives???
WAIT! Technically speaking she is a 3rd…just not my 3rd……hmmm…maybe it’s just something in the genes?
Comment by sis-in-law — June 21, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
Doesn’t the time go fast!!??! My son will be six next month, and he’s going to kindergarten in August! I find myself thinking, Where’s that little baby I held in my arms?
Thanks for the comments on my potty training post, and the link. FYI: I agree with you, and I don’t plan to alert the authorities, because I know this family wasn’t intending their actions to be abusive, even if they seem that way to me.
Comment by Andrea McMann — June 23, 2008 @ 4:36 am