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.
