You decide...

Since the day Ruth Ann was born all I ever hear is how much she looks like her daddy. Apparently the ladies at her pre-school questioned whether or not she was my biological child until the morning Arch dropped her off and they all said "Oh, you're who she looks like." I held out hope that Tripp would perhaps display some of my traits...and prove my gene pool could actually dominate against the very strong McCarty genes. In the weeks after Tripp was born I thought I had succeeded. Tripp looked so much like my dad and brother that I thought finally I had a child who people would say looked just like his momma....but, as Tripp gets older I hear more and more how much he looks like his sister, therefore, he must also be looking like his daddy too. So unfair...I did all the hard work...and still am since I'm still trying to drop the weight from being pregnant with Tripp.

When Ruth Ann was 6 months old I ordered a portrait of her to match one Arch had of Spencer at roughly the same age. I just got Tripp's picture back from being framed so I thought it would be interesting to take a picture of all three together...you decide...do they all look alike. For those who don't know my step-son he is 16 (he will be 17 this week) and is identical to his father. Ruth Ann and Spencer do favor each other...but I think Tripp looks different from the other two. I also think he has my eyes and other members of my family think he looks like my mom's side of the family. To support this arguement, I have a 2nd cousin (my mom and her dad are 1st cousins) who had a baby boy 1 day before I delivered Tripp. There are times when she posts pictures of her little boy and he looks so much like Tripp. She agrees and thinks we have twin cousins...therefore, I'm claiming Tripp as a baby who looks like me and my family...but you decide...