Quirks, Similarities, and Differences

Our children are gifts, blessings, and rewards who were hand-picked for us by an omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent God. What a humbling and thankfulness-evoking thought. Of late I have really been thinking much about the quirks, similarities, and differences in these two.

I love...

- watching Eliana combine different foods or dip her food into just about anything that seems like a sauce.

- Eliana's ability to pop her wrist a certain way, which we discovered several years ago

- Landon's teeth coming in in a strange order.

I love their "quirks."

I love...

- being captured by their contagious smiles.

- walking outside into the sunlight and hearing them both have "sunshine sneezes."

- knowing that they both, as infants, crossed their feet while drinking from their bottle.

- seeing their interest in the outdoors.

- the fact that they both love fruit.

- that both adoptions were finalized within four months of their placement with us. We are celebrating Eliana's Adoption Day today ~ July 24.

I love their similarities.

I love...

- Eliana's brown eyes and Landon's blue eyes

- that Eliana's feet are like mine; Landon's are like James'

- Eliana's motherly ways and Landon's inquisitive ways.

- Eliana's adoption story and Landon's adoption story.

- their size differences.

I love their differences.

There are many more quirks, similarities, and differences, I'm sure with more yet to discover. But every day...

I love my children!