Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for January 22, 2014

That’s about the size of it, Pasquale.

@Jimbo+Rose

OK you two, back to bed now!

Every once in a while, when I look at one of my daughters, I can see them as teenagers. It always freaks me out.

My granddaughter is a mini-me of her Mom. There are times when the deja vu hits me like a brick.

Pasquale is a comic strip kid, he’ll age very, very slowly. Look how long it took Gene from “Arlo & Janis” to grow into manhood; the eponymous Luanne and her friends are just entering senior year of high school after nearly 30-years; and, worst of all, Nancy, the Peanuts gang, the Bumstead kids and Lombard kids from “One Big Happy” are in perpetually childhood.

I think I rather look like my grandmother (my mother had a stroke before age 60, so she did not look like herself as a senior).

As to Pasquale, I think it is great that he now has the equivalent of the “alter ego” of his parents, by being the grown-up product of their good parenting.

My much-younger brother has twin girls (well, actually his wife did, for you smarties out there). They are two, not identical and watching them grow and change is fascinating. One looks identical to my father; the other is favoring my brother. My son, on the other hand, channels my older brother, with whom he has spent practically no time, in subtle attitudes, mannerisms and practices he couldn’t possibly know. Weird and wonderful.