I’ve posted several pictures of Susan looking sweet and guileless, but I wouldn’t want to mislead anyone. Grandma thinks Susan is not a typical middle child: she has no difficulty asserting herself and she is not what you’d call a peacemaker.
She is also why I gave up on baby-proofing three years ago. Lately she has been trying to express interest in my “makeup,” which, since I don’t actually own any, means that she dissected a bunch of tampons and opened a few of those sealed contact lens packets. Today she found my concealer (okay, so I do have makeup, if five different kinds of concealer count) and for a few minutes I wondered if she’d gotten a new birthmark shaped like a port-wine stain.
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My middle child was always assertive, aggressive, and not a peace maker. I thought middle childer had to strive for attention by NOT being peaceful and quiet. Only my second child is peaceful and quiet. Wait, only sometimes, and not at that young age.
Anyway, the title of this post brought me here. My oldest daughter is very sweet and good. (after she passed 3 years old, before that I block from my memory) When she was about 12 or 13 she was walking around town with a friend and they discussed her lack of swearing. Her friend made a comment about not even hearing her say “crap” which we didn’t allow with the younger kids. (try telling a 16 yo that crap is a swear word, they laugh at you.) So Kaytlin replied “I just have trouble getting crap out.” ROFLOL!!!! Hahahaha Of course she meant saying crap, not, you know.