Felix Unger and Oscar Madison have nothing on my two oldest children. If I didn't know otherwise, I would swear that Madeline and Spencer couldn't have come from the same DNA. Perhaps a couple small incidents, which occurred within minutes of each other on the same Sunday morning a few weeks ago, capture it best: Just before we left for church, I was standing in the bathroom as Spencer came down the hall. He couldn't see me and didn't know I was there. As he dilly dally'd down the hall (still without his shoes or coat on as the rest of the family is ready to go) I hear him singing to himself, "I love my dad more than my butt." Fast forward 20 minutes to the parking lot at church: As Maddie jumps out of the van, she notices that someone has left a lighter laying in the gravel and immediately blurts out, "Oh, like that's not a safety issue!" A couple weeks later, I rented Mr. Bean's Vacation for the kids. When I asked the kids if they liked it, Spencer's exact words were, "It was SOOO hilarious!" Maddie: "It really wasn't that funny dad." With Miss Sophia in the mix, it is quite possible that no three kids from the same family are more different than our trio. I think it's the hardest and best thing about getting to be their dad. I can honestly say that as much as they drive each other crazy, they wouldn't know what to do without each other.
Felix Unger and Oscar Madison have nothing on my two oldest children. If I didn't know otherwise, I would swear that Madeline and Spencer couldn't have come from the same DNA. Perhaps a couple small incidents, which occurred within minutes of each other on the same Sunday morning a few weeks ago, capture it best: Just before we left for church, I was standing in the bathroom as Spencer came down the hall. He couldn't see me and didn't know I was there. As he dilly dally'd down the hall (still without his shoes or coat on as the rest of the family is ready to go) I hear him singing to himself, "I love my dad more than my butt." Fast forward 20 minutes to the parking lot at church: As Maddie jumps out of the van, she notices that someone has left a lighter laying in the gravel and immediately blurts out, "Oh, like that's not a safety issue!" A couple weeks later, I rented Mr. Bean's Vacation for the kids. When I asked the kids if they liked it, Spencer's exact words were, "It was SOOO hilarious!" Maddie: "It really wasn't that funny dad." With Miss Sophia in the mix, it is quite possible that no three kids from the same family are more different than our trio. I think it's the hardest and best thing about getting to be their dad. I can honestly say that as much as they drive each other crazy, they wouldn't know what to do without each other.
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I can picture these scenes playing out....TOO FUNNY. I am not quite sure how to comment on Spencer's song though....WOW that had to be a proud moment... The picture of the odd couple brought back memories of watching them when we were kids.
God truly creates every child diffently :-) Tell my nieces and nephew Auntie April loves them and misses them.
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