Sometimes I marvel at how alike the girls can be. There are times I'll look at the video monitors while they are sleeping that they are in the exact same position. Eerie.

Yet, last night as I snuck in their rooms to watch peak at them sleeping, I had to smile at their biggest difference. There was Kalya curled on her side with her thumb in her mouth. Nothing in her bed but her. On the floor next to her bed was a mound consisting of her 2 blankets - her Dora blanket and her pink Gymboree blanket with kitties on it - along with her stuffed dolls of Map and Swiper and her "taggie" - a blanket shaped like a cow. She insist on being put to bed with all these things and then almost immediately after we shut her door, she tosses them out of her bed where they stay until the morning.

Enter Alysa's room and you see the opposite. The floor next to her crib is clear. In her crib she is sleeping just as soundly, also slightly curled on her side. But in her arms is her Taggie blanket (a tag is in her mouth) and her Baby (a little plush purple baby doll). She would NEVER go to sleep w/o them and they are always within her reach if they leave her arms. There are even times I'll hear her in the middle of the night and look over and she's sitting up looking around her crib. When she sees her Taggie and Baby, she'll dive-bomb for them, roll over, put a tag in her mouth and hug them before going back to sleep.

When we travel - all their blankets and dolls make the trips with us. But where Kayla's is more because it's the thing "to do or have", with Alysa it's out of total necessity. Whenever we head upstairs for naps or bedtime, Alysa will walk up the stairs repeating - "I'm coming Baby. I'm coming Taggie". She is truly obsessed!

I enjoy not only their similarities but their differences as well.