Monday, June 1, 2009

Quirky...

What would make an 18-month old insist on wearing pink wrist bands with soccer balls on them?  She found them at my mom's house and has basically refused to take them off since. I have to bribe her at bath time and I'm hoping they aren't a hazard to sleep in.  I've talked about her fixation on things before, like a fascination with pumpkin garb way past Halloween. She's over that now, but wants to wear her Christmas pajamas five nights a week.  My girls are identical, so shouldn't they both be obsessive compulsive?  Perhaps I can enter them in a twin study and we will be soley responsible for determining the exact gene and cure for this form of mental illness, thereby winning a Nobel Peace Prize or similar. (And if you think I'm donating our time, think again. Show me the money!  God, I hated that movie.)

Also of concern today: My disdain for Jenny McCarthy.  I need (more) therapy after catching up on her blog at Oprah.com. Opes needs to rethink several of her affiliations. My thoughts here.


8 comments:

  1. precious picture. they are beautiful. that would be an interesting twin study. i am always captivated by twins. my mom is a twin, my sister has twins, and my grandmother had twin siblings. i am not having any more children to avoid the possibility. take care.
    -Kiki

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  2. BTW, my mom's twin also has twins. can't believe i forgot them.

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  3. My older daughter still, at 3 1/2, will obsess over certain objects for days at a time. When she was about two, she carried around a wire mesh colander for a week - that earned us some interesting looks when we were out running errands.

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  4. I'm just wondering why your mom had pink wrist bands with soccer balls on them.

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  5. Our youngest wore a bee costume every day for almost a year. She is no longer obsessive about things. She is 8 now. So, hopefully it will pass. And by pass, I don't mean to the other twin.

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  6. You have GOT to read Newsweek this week--the one with Oprah on the cover. It's a moral imperative!!

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  7. She's just adorable. I still remember when I was a kid, a friend of mine had younger twin brothers. One of them acquired a pair of plastic glasses and refused to remove them for the better part of a year. He also insisted on being referred to as Egon (from Ghostbusters). Not suggesting she's going to create an alternate identity for herself (they were a pretty strange family, even without the Ghostbusting toddler). But even he eventually outgrew it!

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  8. Hi! Must go read your bit about Jenny. What is with her and Oprah? Annoying. Anyway could your girls be more gorgeous? I think not They're perfection!

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