The difference between boys and girls:
- One night I had gotten the baby undressed and ready for his bath when I picked him up with my hand under his butt. Immediately I felt something suspicious. Panicked, I turned to Mario, asking, "Did he just poop on my hand?"
- I always thought people exaggerated when they talked about their boy babies peeing on the changing table. After all, Clara's done this once or twice. It's just more dramatic with boys, right?
or twice in two and a half years, The Boy pees on the changing table once or twice A DAY.
Now I know--it's no exaggeration.
Sibling Rivalry
My biggest worry about having a second child was Clara's reaction to him. Fortunately--so far--all my worries were for naught.
- They both wake up a little earlier than we had been accustomed to, but early morning with both kids is one of the best times of day. The Boy is alert, wide-eyed and wondering, and Clara just loves to get in his face and stare back at him. On these occasions, The Boy seems to enjoy her as much as she enjoys him.
- However, she does get upset when he spits up. He spat up in the car seat the other day (which was Clara's until 2 weeks ago). For the rest of the week, whenever she saw him it was an endless litany of, "Baby? Spit? Carseat?" with an ever-increasing note of panic in her voice.
- She already protects him, too. Patty and Mario's mom were teasing The Boy at breakfast about whether he wanted to eat bananas with us. Having been warned that the baby can't eat anything besides boobie and bottles (in case she had the bright idea of feeding him a banana), Clara piped up, "No! Baby eat boobie!"
Way to lay down the law, kid.
For my mom:
Echoing a constant refrain from my own mother, Mario's mom needed my opinion the other day. "Doesn't Mario speak really fast when he speaks in English?"
Mario does have a tendency to speak really fast. In any language. But I can't say that it's much faster than average conversation.
So it's not just you, Mom. ;)
