Have you noticed it's a bit nippy outside?

My twins are as different as night and day. As the freezing cold weather drops down from our Canadian "friends", my kid's reactions to the cold are just so.... weird.

My daughter is always cold. She wears sweats in the middle of summer and is always under at least one thick blanket or comforter. My son, OTOH, is mostly hot and walks around in the winter in t-shirts and a hoodie. Apparently if you put them together they turn into a normal metabolism. But apart, so different!

This morning it was so cold I actually agreed to drive them to school. I know! I'm a total sucker. At 7:15 or so, my daughter came downstairs and showed me what she was wearing. On the bottom she had leggings, long underwear and corderoy pants. On top she had a camisole, long sleeved t-shirt and a warm hoodie. On her feet she had two pairs of socks and her UGG mocs. And over all that, her down jacket with both hoods up over her ear flap hat, and her North Face fleece gloves that she paid for because there is NO WAY in hell I would sink that much money into a pair of gloves. .

To get a ride to school. And a ride home. OK then.

Her brother, OTOH, was wearing my Harvard t-shirt, a pair of jeans, shortie socks under his new boots, and a hoodie. Um, no. I made him put on a jacket, but he refused to zip it up. He refused to put on a hat. He refused to put on gloves. He refused to put his hood atop his head. He claimed, and I quote exactly, "It's not that cold outside."

The wind chill made it -3 degrees. That is cold, isn't it? I think it is.

When I don't get is how one kid can be so over-prepared and the other one so under-prepared. They are twins. I remember. I was there when they were born.

I do not get it!

Comments

[Ilona]

If they were identical twins, you could come up with some theory (medically impossible, but intuitively sound) whereby when the egg split the metabolism/heat sensing bits were unevenly divided. But they're not, so you can't. We'll just all have to agree that it's weird.

(-3F is -19C. Pfft. Day before yesterday in my city, it was -28C, with a windchill of -38C. (That'd be -18 and -26F to you.)

Let us not forget that your Canadian "friends" have been suffering with this for weeks. Bleah.)

[Ilona]

Oops. Typo: -18 and -36F. THIRTY-SIX BELOW. Unbearable, no matter which scale you use.

Bleah.

[Daisy]

Ilona, we had those temperatures for three days this week. You can have them back! :)

[the planet of janet]

i break out the uggs and down jackets when it hits 50. just sayin'