He's 16... (totally pointless post) - Page 2

[MusicianDad]

Originally Posted by Storm Bride

And, it's funny you said that about your other ds. DS2 is only 3.5, but sometimes, he reminds me so much of ds1 that it's freaky. That's kind of strange, too - ds1 looked like his dad as a child, and ds2 looks just like his dad (dh). I can't quite put my finger on the similarity (although my two semi-blond guys both sitting at the dinner table with no shirts is part of it ).

They get all that from you!

DD reminds me of her dad constantly. And I've had friends mention that she reminds them of me... I just tell them "Let's hope not."

She has an official crush now too. *sigh*

I still have DS.

[2xy]

Jeez....I WISH my son would get into a car and drive off by himself! Not forever, mind you. It's just that he got his learner's permit almost a year ago and quickly lost interest. He's simply not planning on taking his driver's test anytime soon, and I think he's been behind the wheel twice since August. He's a serious homebody and would happily spend most days alone in the basement playing video games if nobody bothered him.

DS2, OTOH, is already wanting a job and a license. He's 13. He just got home after being gone for the past 24 hours. He went to a friend's for a sleepover, and then took the train into Boston to go to a museum with the friend and the friend's parents. This was all spontaneous, btw. I'm always asked for a ride somewhere (and money) about ten minutes before I have to leave for work.

[Labbemama]

Musiciandad, that is the same thing my dh says about our oldest.
Who btw is planning her 16th bash but afraid to drive.

[Storm Bride]

Originally Posted by MusicianDad

They get all that from you!

It's possible, but I honestly don't see myself in ds2 at all. I see myself in ds1, sometimes (he's a lot like me, if you were to subtract my social phobias, and add both artistic and athletic ability). I can see myself in the way dd looks (she's kind of a combination of me and my MIL), and in some parts of her personality (my mom thinks dd may take after her). I can't see myself in ds2 in any way at all.

Originally Posted by 2xy

Jeez....I WISH my son would get into a car and drive off by himself! Not forever, mind you. It's just that he got his learner's permit almost a year ago and quickly lost interest.

Originally Posted by Labbemama

Musiciandad, that is the same thing my dh says about our oldest.
Who btw is planning her 16th bash but afraid to drive.

I hate driving. I got my first learner's permit when I was 16. Over the years, I got 6 or 7 more. I went a long time without one, because I had no glasses, but I kept renewing it. I had this vague feeling that I "should" get my license. Then, when I was 36, and pregnant with ds2 (my third), and married to dh, who is legally blind, I finally went ahead and really learned, and passed my test and all that. I still have to pass one more road test (I've been pregnant a lot of the time since I passed my first one, and it's hard to test when I'm pregnant), because we're on a graduated system. I have to do that by next June, or...I actually don't know what happens, but I think I have to pass my "novice" stage again (that's the one I have now. In a few more months, I'll have been driving for four years...and I still hate it.

I went out a lot. I took ds1 places and dh and I took dd places. We just did it on the bus or on foot.

Some people just really don't like to drive. I always thought I would. My dad and brother are both furniture movers, who drive for a living and like to drive. My mom will get behind the wheel to unwind. I hate it. My sister has never even had a learner's permit, to the best of my recollection, and she turns 40 this year.

[MusicianDad]

Originally Posted by Storm Bride

It's possible, but I honestly don't see myself in ds2 at all. I see myself in ds1, sometimes (he's a lot like me, if you were to subtract my social phobias, and add both artistic and athletic ability). I can see myself in the way dd looks (she's kind of a combination of me and my MIL), and in some parts of her personality (my mom thinks dd may take after her). I can't see myself in ds2 in any way at all.

I think it's harder to see ourself in someone else then it is to see someone else in them. People often comments that my dad and me are very much a like. I can't see it, he can't see it. But everyone else can.

[Storm Bride]

Originally Posted by MusicianDad

I think it's harder to see ourself in someone else then it is to see someone else in them. People often comments that my dad and me are very much a like. I can't see it, he can't see it. But everyone else can.

Oh, I know. People had to point out to me that dd looks a bit like me. I can see it now, but I needed it pointed out.

Let's put it this way...my mom, my sister and ds1 have also all commented that they can't see me in ds2 at all. It's not just me. He's just...different. (I think, unfortunately, that he may have inherited my total lack of coordination, but I don't generally "see" that in the same way as some other traits, yk?)

[~PurityLake~]

Originally Posted by Storm Bride

I can't see myself in ds2 in any way at all.

That's how I feel about my second daughter. Sometimes I wonder if we're even related!