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Sam is definately Felix. I always wondered how obsessive compulsive people got the way they are. I think probably they were born that way.
Sam is a neat freak.
We got into the car last night after daycare and she saw something sitting on the floor and almost freaked out. “oh-oh. oh-oh. oh-oh.” She went on and on, wanting someone to pick it up. However, all the adults were engaged in strapping the babies into their carseats and couldn’t pick it up. She almost had a cow.
She’s constantly picking things up. Last night she was hungry after supper, so she and I were sitting by the little table eating some Cheerios while Jessie and Matt played in the living room. One of Jessie’s (Oscar) shoes had come off during supper and she didn’t care so we hadn’t put it back on. When Sam dropped a Cheerio (”oh-oh”) and crawled under the table to get it back, she saw the shoe. She had to pick it up, walk through the kitchen, wait for me to open the child gate, walked through the dining room, then through the living room, handed Jessie her shoe (actually, she more or less shoved it into her face), nodded, and turned around and walked back to the little table to finish her Cheerios. Took a while because she’s really little and takes very small steps. Couldn’t finish her Cheerios first, oh no, she had to get that shoe back to Jessie.
She lines the baby lotion containers up on the changing table after she’s done looking at them while I get her dressed in the morning.
If something is laying around, she feels a need to put it on top of something.
Everything has to be neat, orderly, and just so for that kid.
Jessie, on the other hand, is a whirlwind of messiness.
If she loses interest in a toy, she just flips it over her shoulder. If she decides she’s done needing her pacifier for the moment, she just drops it out of her mouth and keeps walking. She shreds kleenexes and tosses the remnants all over. When she gets done eating, we have to shake off her pants. Often we find Cheerios stuck inside her onesie. She’s a little tornado of destruction.
This should get fun as they get older. Matt predicts they’ll have a line of painter’s tape down the middle of their bedroom. One side neat as a pin, the other side you won’t even be able to find the bed.
