Friday, January 07, 2005
Observations while doing dishes...
My oldest daughter, Amanda, looks like me. Not just a slight resemblance either, she looks JUST like me. If you compare our pictures at the same ages, you can see that she is a dead ringer for her mother. She asks me often if she will look like me when she grows up and I tell her yes, although some things will be slightly different. Like maybe her nose will be of a little different shape or she'll have more/less freckles than I do. But mostly, yes, you will look like me. She then stares at me in a sort of listless way, like she is looking at a grown up version of herself. Maybe she is coming to terms with having to look like I do, maybe she is mentally restyling my hair or applying make-up... who knows, but all in all she doesn't seemed to freaked out that she will inherit my looks.

Last night I realized, it isn't only my looks she has inherited. She is precise and organized like I am as well. When I got home last night, I went on a cleaning frenzy. When I started the dishes, I asked Amanda if she would mind drying them and putting them away. She said 'sure'. So I am watching her (while belting out the lyrics to several Bowling For Soup songs) and she does it just like me. Now to clarify, my kitchen is set up in a sort of bizarre way. I keep dishes in the cabinets and then about half of them are stacked on shelves near the table. Amanda put everything where it goes! Even in the order that I put them in. No slacking, no stacking, no griping, no corner cutting... I was so tickled watching her. Not only because she was helping (which I was appreciative of), but also because she took the time to do it right. She is like a mini-me, lol.

~Kate proud mommy

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