When you have two babies so close together and of the same sex I think people have a tendency to say how much they look alike, etc. So I thought I would write a post about my two very different baby girls because it is amazing that I can already tell that they are going to be so different from each other, but of course great in their own unique ways!
To start with you can compare the pics above. That is Ellie on the left at roughly 6 months and on the right is Maggie at roughly 6 months. To me they look very different! Ellie has dark eyes, while Maggie is holding on to those blue eyes! Their face shape is different as are their eyes and nose. Ellie was about an inch taller than Maggie at their 6 month appt. and about a pound heavier as well.
Personalities: Ellie has always been our serious, observant child since she was a newborn. It took a lot to make her smile. She takes everything in and is cautious around new people. Ellie was a wonderful sleeper as a baby and easy to get on a schedule. She never really cooed or babbled much as a baby. She hated being on her stomach and would roll right to her back. She skipped the crawling phase and went straight to walking. She was very content just sitting and playing. She was not much of a "grabber". She learns things very fast and walked early, got her teeth early, and is now potty trained. As I said, she is our observant child and may not preform in front of people, but she is taking everything in. When she gets home she can repeat everything that happened in a class, etc. Oh, and she is still a full fledged daddy's girl. No one can even compare.
Maggie, on the other hand, has been smiling and laughing since she was a few weeks old. She "talks" all the time and makes all sorts of sounds. She loves to roll over on her stomach and play and then roll some more all over the floor. I am pretty sure Maggie will be a crawler, which Ellie did not do either. Maggie is also a grabber. If it is within a foot of her reach she will somehow maneuver to get it. She turned all the way around in her bumbo one day and to pick up a hammer! We have to keep anything she is not supposed to have very far from her so she does not get it! She is not as content as Ellie was, but she is still very patient when we have to rush Ellie to the potty or get Ellie's food, etc. Maggie loves to give hugs and cuddle. She does not, however, like to sleep! We say she is a grazer with eating and a cat napper with sleeping. Grant and I both think she is going to be our outgoing, personality plus child.
It is just so fun to see how their little personalities develop and how different they already are. I am sure there are more things we have noticed, but these are just a few. I mainly wanted to write this so that I would have record of it and remember!
