This is Mom, Shellie, me, and Annette at the reunion when the following story took place:Annette and I were never big on trying to fool people by switching places or things like that. And as we got older, we got tired of being asked, "Have you ever switched classes at school to fool your teachers?" (We never did.) But there was one time that we totally fooled someone--and it was completely unintentional!
The victim was Annette's son, Jared. He was about 8 months old at the time. We were all in Utah visiting for a reunion before my Dad & Mom got their mission call to Chicago. Frank (Jared's dad) had taken Jared outside to play with some of the cousins in the sandbox. He had been playing for a little bit when I came out with Minnie. Shortly after that, Frank left to go inside. After awhile Jared started to fuss so I picked him up. He stopped crying and I held him for awhile, watching the other kids playing with some of their parents. Then I decided to take Jared inside to Annette. I went in the house, located Annette, and started talking to her, with me still holding Jared. Jared was looking at his mom talking, then glanced up at me--then suddenly he looked very confused and looked back and forth a few times between us, then dived for his mother's arms!
We started laughing--it was the funniest thing I have ever seen. An 8-month-old can do a double-take! We realized that Jared had thought that I was Annette; that he was safe in his mother's arms. At some point while he was looking at Annette he realized, "Wait! I am looking at my mom, but I am being held by my mom! How is that possible?!" He did figure out that I was the impostor within a few seconds. Anyway, I will always remember the bewildered look on little Jared's face.
P.S. Another funny twin thing--our YW Presidency had our first Presidency Meeting last night and we realized that all but the President is a twin! I'm the identical twin, the secretary has a twin sister but they are fraternal, and the 2nd counselor has a twin brother. What are the chances?!
P.P.S. I got my photos to work on the mission memories post so go back and check it out if you care to.
3 comments:
I remember when that happened very well. In fact, I've told the story to a few people recently for one reason or another...
We actually have a new set of twins in our ward. They were born just a couple of months after the other set of twins left for college...
I'll never forget Jared's little confused face, either! The boys (including Jared) love that story and think we should set Seth up next time we are in Utah. I think that would be mean, though--why mess with his little mind?
I don't think we look much alike in that photo, but evidently we looked enough alike to fool Jared.
Great family story!!!
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