I think all of my kids look very different from one another.
They all have the genetics of my husbands family and they all resemble that side of the family, but in terms of really looking alike, I have always thought that the only two who really look alike are Monkey Girl and Tiny.
I’ve always thought that Monkey in the Middle looks the most different from everyone.
My Dad used to say that people had two types of faces:
Pig faces and Fox faces.
My Dad and I had Pig faces.
My Mom had a Fox face.
Every single one of us, in this house, have Pig faces, but Monkey in the Middle has a Fox face.
The next part to this post involves explaining how our computer crashed when Baby Monkey was about two.
We lost all of our photos of Monkey in the Middle from birth to age three, and all photos of Baby Monkey.
We hadn’t backed anything up, and had only a few photos that we had sent to other people and they sent back to us.
So, I really don’t get to remind myself what Monkey in the Middle looked like as a baby very often.
(Baby Monkey looks exactly the same…just bigger.)
Except, I guess I just forgot, or got used to seeing until it blended into the background, we have a family photo at the top of the stairs from 2005.
I was pregnant with Baby, so technically he is in the picture, but it’s basically just the four of us that made up family at the time and my parents.
Anyway, for some reason, I noticed this photo yesterday and stopped dead.
Compare.
I don’t know…maybe it’s just me.
Granted, Monkey in the Middle was about 5 months older than Tiny is in his picture, but in the grand scheme of things, not too big of a difference in age.
But, it’s nice to think that Monkey in the Middle looks like someone around here, and to think that I might have a glimpse into what Tiny might look like when he gets a bit older.
They do look very much alike! Pig face and fox faces? That’s just funny. I’m not sure I could distinguish a pig face from a fox face. 😉 You have a beautiful family!
~FringeGirl
Comment by the domestic fringe — March 5, 2012 @ 9:18 am |
🙂 The pig and fox faces were characterized by a general roundness (pig face) and a sharpness to the features and a longer face (fox face). He said it once and it has ALWAYS stuck with me.
Comment by abozza — March 5, 2012 @ 9:57 am |
Every time I see a picture of Monkey Girl I think of you. She is your mini me. Both of my kids looked identical as babies only Adolpha was a little chunkier. I would put bows in her non existent hair and she’d look like Gomer with a bow. Good thing she’s in pink in all of her baby pics or we’d never know who is who now. I’m sorry you lost your pictures. That must have been devastating.
Comment by Jen — March 5, 2012 @ 9:49 am |
I cried for days. The pictures I miss the most are the ones of both boys on the scale in the delivery room. Their first pictures ever…gone. 🙁
Comment by abozza — March 5, 2012 @ 9:57 am |
We always called those Bert or Ernie faces. I have an Ernie face, Sue has a Bert face.
Comment by David Wood — March 5, 2012 @ 1:00 pm |
Ah, an excellent way to say it! I would have MUCH preferred to have been an “Ernie” face all these years instead of a PIG face!
Comment by abozza — March 5, 2012 @ 1:06 pm |
Wow wow wow! Yes! Definitely twins!
And this:
“My Dad used to say that people had two types of faces:
Pig faces and Fox faces.”
I think I’ve always intuitively thought this, but your dad just put it into words. Exactly!
Comment by Josette Plank — March 5, 2012 @ 8:45 pm |
Thanks! It’s funny, he said this when I was little and for the rest of my life I have been categorizing people this way! 🙂
Comment by abozza — March 5, 2012 @ 8:55 pm |
Wow Monkey in the Middle and Tiny DO look identical!!! Amazing…I truly thought they were the same child!
Comment by Debbie — March 7, 2012 @ 9:48 am |
Which is so funny, because currently, they look nothing alike! So funny how time can change our features!
Comment by abozza — March 7, 2012 @ 10:00 am |
Holy Wow! They look the same!
I have always thought there were only a few face types in the world.
Comment by thismummaslife — March 7, 2012 @ 6:15 pm |
Probably why so many people look familiar, even if you’ve never met them before!
Comment by abozza — March 7, 2012 @ 11:16 pm |
In the interest of full disclosure, Ed McBain, the now-deceased mystery writer is the one who I first heard talk about pig faces and fox faces. I only passed his widdom down to my daughter.
Comment by Grandpa — March 14, 2012 @ 2:29 pm |
Well, you said it to me, so you get the credit. 🙂
Comment by abozza — March 14, 2012 @ 7:53 pm |