Night and Day

Here lately I have really been noticing the differences between Carter and Cooper, they are such opposites. Carter, as we all know it, is the athlete of the family. If it includes a ball he will play it. Cooper on the other hand does not like anything that requires him to get hot and sweaty. If swimming is a sport then that is his niche. He has started to express interest in baseball and told daddy that he wanted him to coach. So we are going to sign him for tball in the spring. It will be after he turns 4, so I think he will be ready. Carter just finished baseball and is now asking to play flag football in the fall. C'mon, not only do I need a break, but my checkbook as well.
Cooper, we have begun to notice, is going to be more of our academic scholar (we hope). He can run laps around Carter when he was that age. The teachers at his school are always telling us that Cooper is the first one to remember the weekly Bible verse. And the stuff that he can remember, songs and lines from movies, just amazes us. Cooper is also very observant than Carter. While we were in Chattanooga, a young African American girl stepped on the elevator with us and Cooper looked up at her and said "you have a black face", thankfully she laughed and agreed. Once she got off, I told Cooper that there was nothing wrong with what he said, but that God made us all different. Later that evening, he was watching TV and called me into the room to change the channel because he was watching a "black show" and wanted cartoons. Carter has never mentioned anything about friends being black or white. We are on crossing boundaries with Cooper that we never even got close to with Carter. So our fingers are crossed for an athletic scholarship as well as an academic.