We have six members in our family, 3 females and 3 males. Out of our four kids, two pairs look alike (a boy and girl in each group – two are dark featured, two are light featured), and those same pairs share very similar character traits.
If you split those two pairs and then combine them one member of the other group (one light, one dark), you’ll discover other things: one is athletic and the other is not (the older two are less athletic). Both are the same sex.
Different children and parent combinations produce different results. For example, any child exclusively with both parents always works well, but less so as you add children (this is obvious because children compete for their parents’ attention).
Being with the older two brings a feeling of deeper roots and nostalgia from the early days. The younger two are completely innocent. Girls will be girls and boys will be boys.
Three are messy and one is clean. One loves music, one filmmaking, one drawing and the other—that one is too young to know yet. Of course, all are beautiful, artistic and funny.
Then there’s me and my wife. We love being alone together but we also love what we’ve built. I can’t wait to see how this family of ours is going to turn out when we start seeing grandkids.