Ellie and Birth order

In Ellie's world......
All the kids in her Kindergarten class will notice that when she gets her bangs cut..."They are going to just DIE when they see me!"

Holding up the birdie finger is ok as long as it's accompanied by, " Mom, what does this mean?"...(no matter how many times I tell her that it means..." I REALLY don't like you")

Pink high hills go with every out fit

Sugar is one of the four food groups

She is exempt from Mom and Dad's instructions. ( We couldn't possibly mean that SHE needed to get her jammies on and brush her teeth!)

There is no one quite as cute as her...Ok that might be a fact in Mom's world too. :-)


I've been doing a lot of thinking about birth order lately. I compare my kids to my siblings and find the similarities interesting. Since this post is about Ellie, I will compare her to my sister Mindy...who is also a third child. Family...if you don't agree that the two are quite similar, just let me know.



Ellie is very into fashion and accessorising.



Ellie LOVES babies and little kids. She is drawn to them and wants to hold and be around them whenever possible.



Ellie is a natural and shameless "flirt". I just went on a field trip with her class and witnessed this first hand! (Mindy, I know you aren't like that any more....but I have a few memories....:-)



Ellie has a consuming desire to be ON TIME for things. I have never seen a five year old so concerned about missing the bus. She doesn't board until after lunch, but she starts to worry about it around 9:00. It's pretty funny. There is nothing I can do to ease her mind. I guess when your five, THREE HOURS means the same as three minutes. :-)

Ellie also has an irresistible urge to slightly tease.....dare I say torment those who are easily tormented. Not in a vicious or hateful sort of way, but a "just to get a reaction" sort of way. Now Mindy, we both know the stories of our youth. You were the tormentor and I was your prey. For those of you out there who don't know our stories, let me share a few instances:

#1 Mindy is in the bath. She frantically calls me in and says, "Jill, you have to go get Mom...I am going down the drain!" I run to Mom crying and visualizing loosing Mindy to the unknown underworld of the plumbing. I am shocked when I find that Mom doesn't share in my panic.

#2 Mindy is taking me on a bike ride. I am the passenger and have no control as to where we are heading. Mindy tells me that she is taking me to a garbage can to see a dead cat. There was no dead cat in the garbage can, but I didn't know that...I don't think I ever looked.

#3 After getting in trouble with Mom and Dad, Mindy informs me that she is going to run away. She told me that if I didn't come with her, she was going to go alone. I was only in Kindergarten, but I knew I couldn't let her face the dreary world by herself. She made me pack a bag and told me we would leave after school. I remember being in MISERY the whole day. I hoped that when she got home she would change her mind. She didn't. Off we went...to the grocery store. We bought some twinkies and then she told me she was ready to go back home. As the story goes, we both remember arriving home..(no one knew we had run away) and Grandma Hintze was visiting. She had brought all the girls Ms. Pac Man pillows and home made underwear.

I only share these stories because...well,... they are funny and should be preserved, and I can totally see Ellie doing these things to her younger siblings in the future.

I need to do some more comparing and analyzing with the other kids to see if they follow in with the birth order of my other siblings...but I do have to say that Ellie and Mindy seem to be peas in a pod. Maybe that's why they love each other so much!

I can also hope that Ellie will eventually develop some of the wonderful things that Mindy is today. Mindy is so thoughtful, caring, generous, fun, patient, spiritual and devoted to family. I hope Ellie will continue to follow in her footsteps. :-)