Twinkle: Comparisons

I just had this epiphany and had to share.

My MIL constantly compares Baby Sophie (the real one) to my SIL, and Baby Sophie is always on the unfavorable end of the comparison. MIL will say, for instance:

"Well, Sophie didn't get that nose from SIL." (I am pretty darn sure my SIL had a nose job. I know Mr. Twinkle did).

"Yes, Sophie does look exactly like SIL, except for that broad forehead. See how dainty SIL's forehead is." (Although, I must add, in SIL's baby pictures she has the exact same forehead, and I don't see anything wrong with the forehead of either mother or daughter...talk about nitpicky).

"Sophie doesn't look like SIL as much anymore, now that her face is getting fatter. SIL's face is so slender." (She's 6 months old...her face is supposed to be fat).

I have never heard my mother (or any family member who would remember me as a child) compare the features of Twinklette and me...but what a great way to give your brand-new granddaughter an inferiority complex! It's even been making me uncomfortable for awhile now, and I have no dog in the fight about who between my SIL and her baby is cuter and more perfect...but it just goes to show you how much MIL is truly obsessed with her perfect my SIL is. I mean, most grandmothers think there's nobody more perfect than their grandchildren...but even precious Baby Sophie can't hold a candle to my SIL. Before Sophie was born, I just assumed that any child of my SIL's would be the most perfect child ever born in my MIL's eyes. I should have known that, to my MIL, not even SIL's baby could compare to the glorious perfection already achieved by my SIL. Unbelievable, but not surprising.