Top Ten Reasons Why It's Good to Have All Girls #8

#8: All the Drama

There's never a dull moment at the Hood Home. The current percent-crying-time estimates for all the girls are: 15% (Sara), 12% (Claire), 4% (Mikala), and 6% (Amy). Combining these percentages, the probability of at least one child crying at any point in time is 37%. This means that about a third of the time, someone is crying or whining or pitching a fit or throwing a wobbly (as the Australians say it). We do not have a lot of crying pictures. This is probably because crying is typically ugly. And, as a rule, while picture taking, one tends to avoid ugly.

These pictures have a story. Although this is cheating, Amy's picture is not a genuine pouty face. She likes to make faces while posing for the camera. This was taken in Newberry behind Grandma Baker's house. Amy, however, is the ugliest of them all when she throws a wobbly. Mikala actually had a good excuse for her wailing. If Mikala's picture had included her hands, you'd see them covered in bandages. She burned her hands on a hot merry-go-round (ouch). Claire and Sara need no excuse to cry. Their default activity is crying. If they are not sleeping, eating, or being held, they tend to break out in a cry-chorus. Cliare does have her moments lately when she has so much fun playing that she forgets to cry--until she see mommy walk by, or just hears her voice.

At the Hood Home, we know drama.