Two Very Different Turnips…
March 27th, 2008 by Fiddledeedee…that fell from the same tired old truck.
Sometimes it’s difficult for me to adequately describe how extremely different my two girls are. But, I think I’ve found a way.
For an Easter present, they each received a disembodied head. Courtesy of the clearance aisle at Toys R Us.
Exhibit A) on the left, belongs to the sister who can burp the alphabet. She chooses her wardrobe by “eenie meenie miny mo” and never met a puddle of mud that she didn’t like. She delights in inappropriate bathroom humor, and lives to push her sibling’s buttons. In fact, she has them on speed dial. She’s a free spirit who would style her hair with the electric mixer, if I would permit it.
Exhibit B) on the right, belongs to the sister who color codes her closet. She is the proverbial backseat driver who is ever vigilant so that she can inform the driver (me) if they are about to break the law in any fashion. In a preemptive sort of way. She does not limit her driving critique to her own family van, but will also alert other drivers of their wrongdoing with a well placed scowl. She’s our resident narc. And every hair on her curly head is present, accounted for, and in it’s proper place. Or we don’t leave the house.
Oh, and she has a crush on Mr. Rogers (but is blissfully unaware that he is, in fact, dead.)
I’ll let you decide which head belongs to which sister.
Posted in My Life as I See It | 28 Comments »
March 27th, 2008 at 2:46 am
So funny!
March 27th, 2008 at 5:29 am
This looks like Courtney Love vs. Jessica Simpson. Or PMS versus normalcy. Funny, funny stuff. And, we should all hope our daughters fall for the Mr. Rogers type, but alas ….
March 27th, 2008 at 5:33 am
I have to say that they are a little creepy (the disembodied heads, not your girls). I have a sister in law who has an irrational fear of dolls. God saw fit to give her two boys. I guess He felt she could live with her doll avoidance issues. Have a great day, DeeDee!
March 27th, 2008 at 5:45 am
I wanted one of those heads so badly when I was a kid! Now I understand the reason for those hands sticking out there, but it does look really creepy.
March 27th, 2008 at 5:45 am
I remember getting one of those before for Christmas and thought it was great fun! Unfortunately it did not teach me to better do my own hair/make-up…
March 27th, 2008 at 5:50 am
That so reminds me of myself and my sister.
I was exhibit B. sigh…
March 27th, 2008 at 6:16 am
March 27th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Are the hands attached to the base? That’s a little scary.
I had one of these when I was a kid. My brothers took it, shaved her head, and painted a beard on her to use as John the Baptist’s head in Children’s Church. I have been forever scarred.
March 27th, 2008 at 7:19 am
So funny! I am glad I’m not the only one who buys for a good price!
March 27th, 2008 at 7:30 am
You just described myself and my sister! Opposites, I tell ya!
March 27th, 2008 at 7:41 am
I had one of those heads when I was a little girl a MILLION years ago. Mine was just a head, though. The arms make them a little creepy….. Your girls are me & my sister, too! I’m Exhibit A!
March 27th, 2008 at 7:46 am
SO funny! Especially this, “lives to push her sibling’s buttons. In fact, she has them on speed dial.”
March 27th, 2008 at 7:59 am
TOO funny!! Am I guessing right that Cailey is on the left and Emme the right? Is Emme your oldest? My oldest is my back seat driver. DRIVES me nuts!!!!!!
March 27th, 2008 at 9:10 am
I think Emme is Exhibit B, Cailey is Exhibit A. And I’m getting this solely from the fact that I am the oldest in my sibling group, and Exhibit B sounds like an oldest child.
March 27th, 2008 at 9:25 am
I’m trying to decide which one I associate with…the disembodied head on the left or the disembodied head on the right. Hmmm…
March 27th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Oldest children are perfectionists so I guess Exhibit B is Emme, and middle children are “care-free” so I guess Cailey is Exhibit A.
Please tell us if we are right!
March 27th, 2008 at 10:18 am
I am an Exhibit B that gave birth to an Exhibit A five years ago. My little Exhibit A can ruin a perfectly good set of nice clothes without ever even moving around. And the hair! I think she may actually style hers with a mixer when I’m not looking. Sweet mercy, having to comb the tangles just might do me in. Or make me go deaf from the screaming (hers, not mine).
Sigh.
March 27th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Hey, I didn’t know that you found my disembodied Barbie in my parent’s attic… Mine would be Exhibit A, thankyouverymuch.
March 27th, 2008 at 11:04 am
This has me laughing! This picture exactly describes my twin sister and I. She was a tomboy and I was a lover of sequins. Now as adults, she is the one who wears fluffy pink fur and I often forgo makeup. Total turnaround I tell ya.
(I should mention that I used to be an over-the-road truck driver which started the whole no makeup, unstylish clothes phase I am finally coming out of.)
Anyway, I’m new to your blog and am enjoy it.
Cheers!
Lucky
March 27th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
What? Mr. Rogers is no longer among us? I’m in denial.
I loved him! My father, although quite a bit heavier, was just like him. Very soft spoken and wore a sweater most of the time. Good stuff!
March 27th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Please tell me those girls aren’t made to share a room!
And I can see why she likes Mr. Rogers, that whole changing the shoes to slippers and blazer to sweater EVERY FREAKIN’ DAY!!! I’m just glad I didn’t have to wash HIS laundry!
March 27th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Oh my, those are frightening. Although I had one too. Mine didn’t have the hands though.
March 27th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
May I be the first to congratulate you (and your daughter) for passing on the “Parrot Torch”. (Although, I hope that the “McDonald’s thing” isn’t part of the package.) Now if I could only figure out if it’s the “mixer-head” …or the “resident narc”… LOL although I’m leaning toward the “resident narc”.
March 27th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I use to look like B but after having kids I now look like A – except stuffed with too much fluff.
March 27th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Love it! My sisters and I were like that!
March 27th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Honestly, I looked like Right Head when I left for Mayo … and totally look like Left Head now.
Lawsie, 10 hours in the car and 4 hours in the gown ….
No one should be put through that.
March 27th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
I have 2 girls, almost 4 & 18 months. I love watching them develop their own personalities.
I think if they had those dolls, I’d have to put them in a closet at night. If I woke up and stumbled across those bodiless heads I’d be more than just a tad freaked out.
March 28th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Growing up, I couldn’t care less about how I looked. My one and only daughter is fru-fru through and through.
And the hands sticking out made me do a double take that I think I can claim as whiplash on my health insurance.