One of these things...

...is not AT ALL like the other.


When I got pregnant with Finn, I knew that these boys were going to be different. We joke that Eddie is going to be the crazy one and Finn is going to be the responsible one....Eddie's going to be trying to skateboard off the roof and Finn is going to have the phone in hand, ready to call 911.

And while I guessed that they would be different personality wise, I had always had visions of them looking totally similar, except I had always envisioned Finn with long brown hair. (Side note : when I was in Rockford we had a really crazy ultrasound and were able to see Finn's hair floating around. The ultrasound tech was freaking out about how long it was! I was so beyond impressed with myself for "knowing" that he was going to have hair...how wrong I was about the color, though!) So when Finn was born, I wasn't just surprised with his hair color, I was shocked to see how different he was from Eddie.

When Finn was tiny, I would get flashes of similarity - from the profile especially - and then in an instant they would be gone. As Finn gets older, I find myself thinking more and more that they are starting to look alike. Finn's eyes are his greatest difference from Eddie's dark brown (the exact color of mine), so they look especially alike when Finn is sleeping. In fact....

....when I turned these pictures black and white, you can really see the similarities - the nose, the eyebrows (from frank one hundred and ten percent), even the little ears. Finn's face shape is definitely different, and we also think that he's just going to be tinier than sturdy Eddie, who has stayed in the 90th percentile pretty consistently. Finn's feet are so tiny still, and when comparing to Eddie's baby pictures, we're shocked with how chunky baby Eddie feet were. (And now I just realized that is like comparing puppy paws...lol). And whenever Finn has a hat on, you totally get the similarities....his hair totally makes him, even if he is completely bald in the back now (blech!).


But those little similarities in their faces? Pretty much the only thing these boys share so far. I'm surprised at how the differences between the boys are already showing....Finn is such a different baby - from little things like the fact that I can never, ever keep socks on this boy (a problem I never understood with Eddie, and always wondered why people would complain about trying to keep socks on a babe) to big things like the fact that Eddie never was able to latch properly and Finn was able to latch perfectly after 6 weeks.



Other things (that will only be interesting to Nanna, probably, but that I want to write for myself....)

Finn also can fall asleep anywhere and I have no doubts that he is going to be that kid that falls asleep in his high chair or jumperoo. Just now he fell asleep for all of 5 minutes while on his playmat and then woke up looking around like "WTF just happened?". Eddie would only sleep in his bed, and is still that way. He loooooves all of the little hanging toys that Eddie never payed any attention to, and also loves to sit up. He's been standing (with us to balance, obviously) for a long time now and completely freaked us out the first time that he did it. I have no doubts that Finn is going to be an early crawler or walker. I think we're also going to start solids with Finney pretty late - he has shown zero interest in what we're eating whereas eddie would watch food like a hawk.

At this rate, I'm holding out hope that Finn will be my calm boy....mainly because the thought of another 3 year old Eddie makes me want to cry. Oh, don't worry. I've got lots of crazy Eddie stories to come.


Is it weird that I'm totally shocked at the differences these boys are showing already? Any other moms out there surprised at how different your kids are?