Being the Middle Kid at the Ellis’ is not as Easy as it Seems

Let me tell you about my family, the Ellis’. There is my older sister; Lauren, my younger sister; Hannah, my mom, dad, and then there’s me. I’m the middle one that has a harder job than Lauren, but easier than Hannah. I don’t have to do the dishes yet because I never do the dishes when I’m asked, oops, because I always forget. That’s who I am, I forget a lot, of everything. Lauren is at Duke now and isn’t home hardly ever. Hannah, when I’m frustrated or mad at her I call her Haggis, is in 5th grade at Catlin, watch out Paul, she’s headed your way!

The reason that I have a harder job than Hannah, is because I have to be a good role model, and everything I do influences Hannah. I have an easier job than Lauren, but only sometimes. I had an easier job than Lauren did when I was 6 rather than when she was 6 because Lauren basically started taking care of herself right when I was born, when Lauren was 6. I started taking care of myself at the end of last year and I’m still learning how. I didn’t have to start off when I was 6 because I still needed someone to take care of me when Hannah was born, I was 2 at the time. I have a harder job than Lauren did, and still does as a matter of fact, because I am different than she was and still is. I started at Catlin in Kindergarten and she started in 7th grade. The grade I’m in right now. I was a super easy baby and waited for my parents to pick me out of the crib. I could have been in the crib all day if they didn’t come wake me up, whereas Lauren would start screaming and then get pulled out of the crib. Also, I don’t talk much at the dinner table because my sisters have too much to say sometimes but there are days when its my turn to talk at dinner.

I am almost never the center of attention. I am in the center of the sisters yes, but my sisters are usually the center of attention because most the time I am quiet in public and I don’t like to talk to people I don’t know because I was taught, “Stranger Danger!” Hahaha, but even when I am in public I become the center of attention because of my hair, I can’t help it, all the time I have random people come up to me and start touching my hair. It’s crazy and I don’t like it usually because I don’t know the people that touch my hair. When I was little my first sentence was, “Don’t touch me.” I loved being little, those were the days. I could tell people what to do.

The new movie Frozen, me being Anna, I would do anything to help my sisters like Anna did going up the mountain to find her sister, and wanting to play with her even though she knows that her sister will probably say no. In other ways I also feel like I have friends that would say, “Some people are worth melting for.” ~ Olaf (from Frozen)

Being the middle kid in the Ellis’ family isn’t as easy as it looks and sometimes you get way too much attention. My family definitely has influenced my life, by a lot.  I like who I am, and would definitely be a completely different person if I weren’t the middle kid.

Sources:
My brain and my mom's camera pictures