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We laugh sometimes at how opposite our kids tend to be. If you put a cupcake in front of both and come back in a few minutes, one cupcake will have its frosting almost surgically removed, while the cake portion remains intact. The other plate will simply have a pile of frosting, with only a few crumbs of cake remaining.

The differences extend way beyond food. While one is a music loving guitar player, the other loves to craft and create things. He’ll usually approach one of us with one of his ‘ideas’. Literally, the conversations starts with, “Mom (Dad), I have an idea…” These ideas usually involve plenty of packing tape, cardboard, rope and patience. Recently he created a full size, wearable Iron Man costume with all of those materials as well as a hockey mask. The end result was sort of bizarre, but strangely accurate. Sort of an Iron Man meets Jason from Friday the 13th. Most importantly, it kept him busy for quite a while.

I was roped in recently to help create a puppet. I had to do the cutting, but he helped by organizing the pieces and assembling.

His name has been changed a number of times, but most recently he is “King”.

I’m just waiting to hear that King needs a friend…