Mommy's Daughter

This is how Mara usually sleeps. Her beloved Doggy covers her face.

Every family has children that resemble their parents visually. And every family has children that act like their parents. But there are very few examples I know of that better illustrate this than Mara and Stacey.

1. When I see Stacey's pictures of when she was a kid, I swear I'm looking at Mara. She looks just like here.

2. Mara has Obsessive Compulsive tendencies just like Stacey. Actually they're worse than Stacey's. They're even worse than Uncle Brian's. They may be right up there with Gramma S's. Either way, it's very clear that Mara does not inherit these traits from me.

But this evenings dinnertime behavior takes the cake. Mara ate very well tonight which is rare. But some events that happened throughout dinner are what made this particular dinnertime amusing. First as soon as she sat down at the table, she let out a super loud tonsil rattling belch. Later, as she was worming around in her chair, her chair moved on her. It slid in such a way that Mara had to get off the chair to push it back to where she could sit on it and reach her food. As she was pushing the chair, she said (in an irritated tone) "This Damn Chair!" Finally, near the end of dinner she winced her face a little, lifted one butt cheek of the chair, and let a blast out of her little ass you could have heard in the basement.

I tell ya, she acts just like her mother.