[MMC66]

All my bio daughters and I have a horrible problem with putting lids on things. It's sort of a standing family joke, we leave lids off milk, toothpaste, you name it. It annoys the heck out of my husband but he gave up a long time ago.

Now along comes little Addy who appears to be obscessed with putting lids ON. If a lid is off, she whimpers and whines until she finds it and can put it back on. I have to admit I had a little private chuckle, definitely not my DNA

Martha

[taramayrn]

Martha,
So cute...thanks for sharing.

[MMC66]

Do kids ever get to the point where they can laugh about stuff like that. Say things like "It's a good thing I'm adopted, I'd hate to have that NOSE " or something like that. I never want a child's adoption status to be a focus but humor is such a big thing in our household, wondering if it will ever come up like that KWIM??

[maddensmom]

I have done that a thousand times. As an adoptee I have the privalege of refusing to accept any of my family's "problems" because we fail to share DNA. HAHA! I JUST told my cousin that I was so sorry that his terribly weak immune system gives him allergies and he can not have all the great stuff I can have (by the way, I happened to fail to tell him about the things I am allergic to just to get hom b/c he always gets me). I told him that I, on the other hand, have a more healthy set of cells from persons unknown but definately not allergic. We ROARED with laughter and then i fessed up about my allergies!
btw... My own adopted son has inherited his Mommy's chronic condition of I-leave-my-shoes-everywhere-itis... Oh well... So much for nature. And, did somebody say "stubborn like your mother?"

[Lexie]

You never know. I am sort of a jumpy, energetic type. My 4 year old (bio)is laid back. Not stressed. Cautious. The baby (adopted) is just like me. Everyone mentions it. He is always moving his leg, his arm , his head. Ready to plow ahead, make a move. I am always tapping my feet. Ready to go. Funny....

[NJNative]

Do kids ever get to the point where they can laugh about stuff like that. Say things like "It's a good thing I'm adopted, I'd hate to have that NOSE " or something like that. I never want a child's adoption status to be a focus but humor is such a big thing in our household, wondering if it will ever come up like that KWIM??"

Oh yes, we make jokes about it all the time. My son and I are always joking around about things, and pretty much nothing is off-limits. He's often said things like "You're nuts, mom. Good thing I didn't come out of THIS gene pool." Of course on the other hand, I said something silly and sarcastic one day, and he rolled his eyes and said "And people wonder how I got the way I am...." LOL.

I think if you -- and the kid -- are comfortable with his or her adoption, you are relaxed about it and can make jokes.

Robin

[Lovebug]

DS is too young to really joke about it, as he is only 2, but we joke about how he was so meant to be our son becuase he is soooo like us! He looks like DH and acts just like me...down to his OCD with cleaning! Lol.

--Renee

[coopspa]

I saw a cartoon in the paper the other day that had two women talking, one holding a piece of paper that I gathered to be a birth certificate. The one woman says to the other, "So you're not my biological mother! I wish you would've told me that before I turned into you!" I laughed so hard!

[LisaCA]

lol, i think the ocd with cleaning, lids and closed cupboards and doors is a toddler phase. I had that, but by the teen years you needed a bulldozer to cross the bedroom. dd's ocd is with lids and closed doors. must close everything or the world ends! I'm kind of enjoying the neat freakness in her, though I wish she felt the same about her toys and her books!

the world is made up of those who put lids back on and those who don't. I don't and married a guy who does (engineer). so we have two separate tubes of toothpaste, one without a cap covered with dried toothpaste and assorted "things" and squeezed from middle (he hates that!) and his neatly rolled from the bottom tube with a lid and clean, clean, clean!!! it will be interesting to see what dd does...she's a xerox of her bmom's and my personalities, so it will be hard to say nature or nurture, lol. I think she'll just be doubly stubborn and controlling .

thanks for the giggle!

lisa