I love how intricately the Lord knitted together specific details in each our MSC...
They are clearly siblings but each one has an overflowing handful of traits that are 100% their own...
Siah... Has facial expressions and mannerisms that sometimes make me feel like I am looking at my mother as a child. Hal couldn't look like my mother if she tried. Her fare skin and bright blue eyes sometimes make me wonder how she got to be my daughter.
But then I see parts of her personality and I have no doubt that we are of the same blood. Hal can be often be caught trying to get her way through her tears and passionate emotion that she displays in certain situations... But little does she know that her mother had that same zeal about her while growing up... "It takes one to know one," right? I played the emotion card on my own parents sometimes so I feel like the Lord has given me a one-up on little Hal in allowing me to spot her emotional manipulation tactics and the wisdom to knip them in the (bottom) as soon as I see them showing their ugly little faces. Yesterday we had one such situation and I am humbly sharing... that I won!!! ( ok maybe I am tackily boasting of my success.:) I had asked Hal to do something... then the tears started to flow... I took her in the bathroom and told her that I expected her to obey me quickly and joyfully (without tears), the first time, every time! Then I disciplined her. She fake cried louder, I repeated the whole process six more times... The sixth time, her heart softened, she got a smile on her face and she bounced joyfully out of the bathroom and completed exactly what I had asked her to do.
Siah is struggling with having an attitude too but it is amazing how differently he responds to my discipline... With Siah, I usually only have to discipline him once... then his heart softens so much so that his body often melts into my chest hoping for a hug... which of course I am glad to give. :)
Reesie, although she is small is quite dramatic but sh,e so far, has been quick to obey when I instruct her with commands like, "come", "no", & "don't touch". It is so crazy that even at a young age you can see so much of their personality.
Reesie is a "Mama's girl"... Both of the older kids were pretty much indifferent as to who was around. (Papa or Mama)
All three kids have crawled at different times... Reesie was our earliest crawler at 8 1/2 months. Hal didn't walk until she was 14 months... Siah only crawled for 4 weeks before he started walking, which was perfect because Hal was born 4 short days after he started walking.
They are all sensitive in certain areas but tough in other areas.
Reesie is so loud that I have been tempted to buy myself some ear plugs just to wear around the house during the day. Hal is so quiet that I have to ask her to repeat herself almost every time she says something to me... And she is so patient about repeating herself... she never gets frustrated at me. She just says what she wants to say over and over again in her mouse voice until I can understand her. Her patience is something that I really love about her.
Siah and I have similar patience levels (about a 3 on a scale of 1-10 :). We both get flustered when we have to repeat ourselves...
Reesie loves to cuddle and be held... Siah would prefer a 10 foot radius of space around him at all times if at all possible. He will give a courteous hug if need be but otherwise he prefers his own space... Hal's a hugger too...
Hal's friendly and outgoing. She'll hug the mail man and thank him for bringing the mail without any prompting from an adult (don't worry, we talk with her about strangers all the time:). But we really have to work with Siah on looking at people when he talks to them & saying hello to people quickly and joyfully when they say hello to him. Right now Reesie is looking more on the shy side.
When Hal laughs it's usually because she's getting tickled... when Siah is laughing, 90 % of the time it is because he is doing something that he is not supposed to do. A few days ago I heard him belly laughing in the living room while I was in the kitchen. When I turned the corner I found him chucking match box cars at the wall as a means of entertaining AJ and his sister.
"Buddy, was that a right choice or a wrong choice?"
Immediately he turned off the laughter and said in slow mo... "Wrong choice mama." :)
Siah and Hal HATE to be dirty, but as you well know... Reesie makes a complete mess of herself every time she eats and couldn't care less about getting dirty...
I could go on and on...
But I just wanted to record here on our blog some of the differences that I truly cherish in each one of our MSC. It amazes me how intricate their make-up is. All the detail that goes into each little life... How can anyone deny that there is a God? Crazy... just crazy! :)
God has given to each his own...
Blessing upon Blessing...
Siah... Has facial expressions and mannerisms that sometimes make me feel like I am looking at my mother as a child. Hal couldn't look like my mother if she tried. Her fare skin and bright blue eyes sometimes make me wonder how she got to be my daughter.
But then I see parts of her personality and I have no doubt that we are of the same blood. Hal can be often be caught trying to get her way through her tears and passionate emotion that she displays in certain situations... But little does she know that her mother had that same zeal about her while growing up... "It takes one to know one," right? I played the emotion card on my own parents sometimes so I feel like the Lord has given me a one-up on little Hal in allowing me to spot her emotional manipulation tactics and the wisdom to knip them in the (bottom) as soon as I see them showing their ugly little faces. Yesterday we had one such situation and I am humbly sharing... that I won!!! ( ok maybe I am tackily boasting of my success.:) I had asked Hal to do something... then the tears started to flow... I took her in the bathroom and told her that I expected her to obey me quickly and joyfully (without tears), the first time, every time! Then I disciplined her. She fake cried louder, I repeated the whole process six more times... The sixth time, her heart softened, she got a smile on her face and she bounced joyfully out of the bathroom and completed exactly what I had asked her to do.
Siah is struggling with having an attitude too but it is amazing how differently he responds to my discipline... With Siah, I usually only have to discipline him once... then his heart softens so much so that his body often melts into my chest hoping for a hug... which of course I am glad to give. :)
Reesie, although she is small is quite dramatic but sh,e so far, has been quick to obey when I instruct her with commands like, "come", "no", & "don't touch". It is so crazy that even at a young age you can see so much of their personality.
Reesie is a "Mama's girl"... Both of the older kids were pretty much indifferent as to who was around. (Papa or Mama)
All three kids have crawled at different times... Reesie was our earliest crawler at 8 1/2 months. Hal didn't walk until she was 14 months... Siah only crawled for 4 weeks before he started walking, which was perfect because Hal was born 4 short days after he started walking.
They are all sensitive in certain areas but tough in other areas.
Reesie is so loud that I have been tempted to buy myself some ear plugs just to wear around the house during the day. Hal is so quiet that I have to ask her to repeat herself almost every time she says something to me... And she is so patient about repeating herself... she never gets frustrated at me. She just says what she wants to say over and over again in her mouse voice until I can understand her. Her patience is something that I really love about her.
Siah and I have similar patience levels (about a 3 on a scale of 1-10 :). We both get flustered when we have to repeat ourselves...
Reesie loves to cuddle and be held... Siah would prefer a 10 foot radius of space around him at all times if at all possible. He will give a courteous hug if need be but otherwise he prefers his own space... Hal's a hugger too...
Hal's friendly and outgoing. She'll hug the mail man and thank him for bringing the mail without any prompting from an adult (don't worry, we talk with her about strangers all the time:). But we really have to work with Siah on looking at people when he talks to them & saying hello to people quickly and joyfully when they say hello to him. Right now Reesie is looking more on the shy side.
When Hal laughs it's usually because she's getting tickled... when Siah is laughing, 90 % of the time it is because he is doing something that he is not supposed to do. A few days ago I heard him belly laughing in the living room while I was in the kitchen. When I turned the corner I found him chucking match box cars at the wall as a means of entertaining AJ and his sister.
"Buddy, was that a right choice or a wrong choice?"
Immediately he turned off the laughter and said in slow mo... "Wrong choice mama." :)
Siah and Hal HATE to be dirty, but as you well know... Reesie makes a complete mess of herself every time she eats and couldn't care less about getting dirty...
I could go on and on...
But I just wanted to record here on our blog some of the differences that I truly cherish in each one of our MSC. It amazes me how intricate their make-up is. All the detail that goes into each little life... How can anyone deny that there is a God? Crazy... just crazy! :)
God has given to each his own...
Blessing upon Blessing...
