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Monday August 14, 2006

First child, second child My wife and I are blessed with 2 children, age 4.5 and 2-. Both are girls, beautiful, smart, cute, funny, healthy, tall and naturally naughty (in a funny way). We named both Mary, in 2 different languages. Until today, I still feel that they are fedex-ed directly by the Creator from Heaven. They are not just CRS, but CRS with a lot of extra stuff thrown in (except the manuals).
Before my second was born, I knew that she will equally good, but yet different. In my language as IT Architect, she will be same "great architecture, but different design, and equally beautiful solution". The Creator certainly is master in what He is doing.

First Child (Marie)	Second Child (Marielle)
Beautiful eyes. Calm and round	Beautiful eyes. Sharp and less round
I'm afraid she gets bully at school or playground	I'm afraid she bully other kids
Fussy eater, but can be persuaded or outwit-ed. Even at 4.5, I can still outwit her	Not fussy eater. But if she does not, no amount of trick will work :-)
At 15 months, said a few words, but most of them I could understand.	At 15 months, said lots of words, but most of them I don't understand. She just babble non stop
Daddy's girl	Mommy's girl
Took time to adjust to new environment	Took little time
Rarely cry (in her younger years, before 21 months)	Cry at least once a day, because she is not getting what she wants
Did not put things to her mouth	Eat things that look like food to her.
Round chin	Sharp chin
Straight hair	Curly hair
Fair (white) skin	Darker skin
Teeth grew slowly	Teeth grew very fast
Did not crawl. Walk straight	Crawl a lot first.

It's a privilege indeed to experience first hand that 2 little being can be similar yet so different.
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