Strangers

Posted on February 24, 2008
Filed Under life on the pickle farm |

Have you ever had a moment when you don’t recognise your child? Just for a second? When they look at you with a face that suddenly seems new, strange, unknown?

This happens to me every now and then. This person who you know so intimately, who is almost part of you. You were sure you knew every inch of them, every look, every word, every face, then they show you something new. It is almost as if I catch a glimpse of something, someone, that I almost recognise, but I just can’t quite put my finger on who or why.

When I look into Muski’s eyes I see my own eyes, but when he is asleep he is a whole different person and suddenly, last night, I saw his Grampy in his closed eyes and calm face. Most of the time Izzy is crazy and wild and nutty and says silly things and giggles a lot, but sometimes she gets all serious and deep and meaningful - where does that come from? With Zoe it is a look… a look that I think belongs on her 18 year old aunt’s face not with her four year old gappy smile. As quickly as it came it goes again and she is back to the same old nutty kid she always was.

I guess it is a part of my children growing and changing. It’s exciting and scary all at the same time.

But this face - this face I know, so well.

So if you guessed Izzy in my impromptu ‘guess the twinado’ competition (which, by the way, there is no prize for - sorry about that!) you were right. I have to admit I am very curious to know how people made their decisions! Many of you alluded to the fact that you had some clue that told you it was one or the other which I found interesting. Interesting because that photo is
largely clueless.

Unlike the image above there is no teeth to count - that is the easiest way to tell them apart these days, since Zoe has ‘the gap’ as we affectionately call it. The hat is not an effective clue either - yes it is pink, but it is also green, and those of you who know where the hat came from (knitted by the very talented Sif) know that we have two hats knitted from the same wool - one with one point and the other with two, but you can’t see the points in that image either!

I know who it is because, of course, I took the photo. I remember who was being the silly one that day. I also recognise the hands, the remnants of pink nail polish is the final give-away. But I want to know who those who picked correctly picked it…. unless it was a random guess.. after all you have a 50% chance of being right either way!

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Comments

4 Responses to “Strangers”

Andrew on February 24th, 2008 8:37 pm

yayaya, i got it right.. :) give me a gold elephant stamp.. pls :)

they are both growing up. :)

i havent had a lot to do with them, but for me, like on msn, its about how they stand when you talk to, and photograph them, izzy stands a little side on, she turns her head, always has, ;)
Bettina on February 24th, 2008 9:26 pm

I always get glimpes of the freak in Miss Lou. I suppose thats only natural, him being her father and all, but it can be quite disconcerting at times. I also see my grandad in her at times too…….. another scary man! lol
Trace on February 25th, 2008 9:06 pm

Izzy was my first thought… and I also thought (though I don’t know why!) “its the one who doesn’t have the gap” (and then had to go back and check which one that was). And I also did some research into hair length… which may be totally wrong, but you had a post where Zoe cut her hair so I thought Izzy’s would be longer, plus there was another photo where the hair length looked pretty similar. (for all I know they got it chopped the same for school??)

Yeah Yeah, I know! I sound like a stalker!
Laura on February 26th, 2008 2:07 pm

I guessed Izzy because of the hat basically as I knew about the points and could only see one point int he picture. I also figured that maybe Zoe coud have Izzy’s hat on but it was a 50/50 chance lol