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Could someone explain to me why Luke has already popped (by squeezing) more balloons than his sisters have popped together in their whole lives?

I think Eleanor still remembers one windy day when her balloon blew down into the grass and popped. It was traumatic because I wouldn't go get her another one, because Amanda (then a baby) was already buckled into her car seat and I was at the end of my rope.

Amanda squeezed a balloon once and it popped, and I think it made an impression on her. She tends to lose balloons: she only likes to hold onto them at the very end of the string, despite my explaining that they are harder to hold onto that way and despite the many balloons she has lost.

But Luke has squeezed 3 or 4 balloons to death, and although the experience is traumatic, he doesn't seem to have learned anything from it, since he does it again and again... When Eleanor was small, the pediatrician warned us to not have latex balloons in the house, since they are a choking hazard. I was confused, since you just kept the balloons until they were about half the size you started with, and then threw them away. Now I am starting to see how little pieces of balloon could get scattered around the house...

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Anonymous said…
It's the pointy bit from the missing piece of one particular chromosome that is responsible for popping the balloons!
March 29, 2009 at 9:23 PM
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