Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Illustrating the differences

When Andy and Doug were little I used to put them in their high chairs and let them color with markers.
I always thought it said something about the differences in their personalities that Doug would color all over the place in many different colors (hence the restraint of the high chair...) and Andy would spend his time fascinated by opening and closing the markers.

So this past week something else happened that said loads about their personalities.
During Spring Break it was a nice windy day and we pulled out some kites. Andy was all about getting the kite up as high as it would go. Doug, on the other hand, became worried and told me that
  1. Andy was flying his kite dangerously
  2. Andy was not following the rules
I could never quite get it out of Doug what was worrying him so about having the kite so high. He decided that he was done flying kites about the time Andy reached the end of his string.

1 comment:

Ann in NJ said...

Doug sounds like JC at that age - he may have been worried that Andy would loose his kite. For JC, that would have been devastating - he never wanted balloons at restaurants because we had lost one once. It's better to not have one, than to loose one.