The Last Teenager

 

Several years after starting my blog, I had a series I called the "Little Abbey" series about my eldest daughter as we and her experienced her birth and childhood for the first time. Eventually time ran it's course and those posts faded away. She is now in her second year of college. 

I got married later than most of my peers and my wife was going through her residency soon after the birth of our first child so it was six years later before we had our second child and by then, we were in the "higher risk" category according to the doctors. But the second one arrived just fine and I started another series that I put tons of effort into naming calling it "Littler Abbey". It faded out much more quickly as there wasn't a lot of mystery left to behold or figure out. Thus our second one never got much written about her on this blog.

That likely won't change anytime soon but I saw this picture on my phone and thought I would temporarily break and show it. Above is a picture of her birthday cake which she specifically looked through many books and recipes to locate and request for us to make for her. It is a cookie dough cake with dark chocolate frosting and it was very tasty indeed. She is now officially a teenager. 

I am constantly amazed at how different my two girls ended up being from each other. One got my love of science, the other my gift of humor is just one of many such differences. I would have thought that both were caused by nurture but perhaps there is a nature component in there too. One thing is for certain however, she keeps me on my toes with her wit and I love to see how she has developed and continues to mature into an adult that someday will fly from the nest like her sister did.