Personality

My kids have personality…

Samantha is a go getter. She always has been. Even as a baby she’d be moving all over the house, exploring her Kingdom. Then she’d come over to me or Sean for a quick 5 second cuddle and be off again. Now she’s the running, jumping, tumbling, climbing, swinging little fireball of the house. She has no fear – she holds snakes and walks up to mean dogs and tells them to ‘stop it’. When we are at the park, she heads for the biggest slide and the most precarious jungle jim – and she conquers it! Most people don’t believe she’s only 2.  She’s eloquent and opinionated. You can see it in the way she saunters along – ‘I’m the center of the universe, move aside’. And yet she’s very sensitive and tender.

Timothy is more quiet. He likes to cuddle and just sit with me. He’ll play for a little while, and then he comes over and leans on me, looking up and giving that special ‘I love you Mummy’ look. He’s at that magical age when he imitates every I do and say. He loves music, and will sing along with me or the CD. He never wants to be alone. He can play by himself if I’m in the room, but if I walk away (or come sit at the computer) he gets very upset.

Ironically, I think that Timothy is going to be more stubborn than Samantha. Sure, we’re experiencing the typical ‘terrible twos’, and some days it’s a little overwhelming, but on the most part I know what’s going through Samantha’s head (thanks to her eloquence), and I know how to steer her in the desired direction. But I can tell that Timothy, under all that sweetness and tenderness and cuddliness has a stubbornness and determination that might just surpass that of his sister. They always say it’s the quiet one you have to watch out for.