Oct. 16th, 2006

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Stick people walking around doing their daily business. At one point, we've got two stick people lugging a stroller up/down a flight of stairs.

How many times a day does the average caregiver do that? I want to stop these people and say "Look, there's an easier way!" Better, I don't know about better (and that's an argument unlikely to convince anybody anyway), but it's sure easier than lugging strollers around.

But they don't know other than to do what everybody else does, and how can I blame them? *sighs*

On a related note, Evangeline is quite a clever little baby. She'll go right up to her sister's toy kitchen and pretend to wash her hands in the sink. That's what my mom and her parents say, anyway - I don't let the baby go in Ana's room very much, so I've never seen this.

Jenn was theorizing that this is because on my back (or my chest, or my hip), she can see everything, and we spend a *lot* of time in bathrooms. In a stroller, she wouldn't be able to see as much. I don't know if this is true or not, but it's sure a cute story :)

(She also says "Ah? Ah!" when trying to give me food. I'll count that as a word, since "Ah, ah" is what I say to her to make her open her mouth, either because that's where we are in a song, or because I want to give her something to eat (in her hand or her mouth), or (most often) because I don't want her to eat something. Other day, I said "Ah?" to her when I thought she'd snuck a scrunchie in her mouth (she had), and that girl actually *jumped*. It was funny, right up until she started crying in bitter defeat. Aw.)
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No, really. A pair of boys, dressed alike, who looked honest-to-God like Draco must've looked at age five, if he'd happened to wear nice quality Muggle clothing.

And then I saw the third one. Triplets. All dressed alike.

Sunday, I went out with Deniz, Ana, and Su while the respective other adults were busy. (There's another story about that coming, but wait until my thoughts make sense, 'k?) And the whole day was a mess of me yelling one, two, or even three wrong names (Evangeline wasn't even there, but I kept calling her name!) before I hit upon the correct one for the child I was intending to correct.

These kids don't look alike, and they sure weren't dressed alike. And I couldn't get their names right for the life of me.

So here's my question - why do people dress their multiples, especially those identical or very similar in appearance, alike? I'm not judging or criticizing, exactly, they clearly have their reasons - but whatever those reasons are, I simply can't fathom. And I want to know, I really do. All I know is that I don't have the brain power to do it, I'd go absolutely batty and the children in question would grow up insecure and altogether a bit confused about their own names.

So I just don't get it.

Thoughts? Answers? Help?

(I also met another young Topher today. This is me, being startled.)

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