You are, what you are

So I happened to be glancing at my youngest child's baby book this afternoon. It's one of those fill in the blank numbers that provides you the sentence and you drop in the pertinent information. Well there was one question that said, "This is what I think you will be like when you are a teenager." I laughed because I believe that's a pretty easy answer. You are, what you are.

I can tell you that my oldest hasn't changed a bit. I still remember her at 2.5 years old standing in the hall yelling, "You're being ridiculous, and I'm being difficult." Concluding with a stomp into her room. I can tell you the sentences might be longer and the stomp louder, but she is exactly the same person she was the day she came into this earth. My middle child, the same as well. As 2.5 years old she saw tears in my eyes and said, "Momma what matta?". Today, at 4.5, she's bright enough to know that if she asks the question, she better be running to get Kleenex because Mom can lay on the waterworks.

So...going back to the baby book...I really think the personality you are born with is the personality that will follow/haunt you as a teenager and well into adulthood. Until you are old enough to realize that you can control how you act and you can go against your hard wiring, you are pretty much a slave to your DNA. Which if you got the good stuff, you're golden. If you didn't, you've got your work cut out for you.