lbotp, I'm glad that glimpsing "things to come" through my stories is more fun for you than worrisome! :) It does sound like your girls are almost exactly the same space apart from one another as mine. One of the things I've found SO fascinating about having two children of the same gender is how very different they are. Maybe that sounds obvious to many, but as my youngest was coming into her own personality more and more, I was daily hit over the head with this realization: "Oh, right. She is not her sister. She's completely her own person."