smile!

[Anonymous]

Max, sadie was already a parent before this :o

[kellychaos]

Better get the quality time in before he gets an agent.

[mburbank]

I'm so out of the loop. Or she told me and I already forgot because even though 42 isn't really that old I have the brain of a man twice my age with head trauma.

SO. The requisite question would then be, how old are the siblings, what's their reaction?

[sadie]

my not even catching that part of your post symbolizes my preoccupation. my son, ryan, is eleven. he loves the baby; he feeds him and holds him and sings to him and tries to make him laugh, but he's been known to say, "mom, you have to admit that he is annoying sometimes." and i say, "yah, well, so are you."

and if fatsatan is a starmaker, why am i not one yet?

[FS]

Sorry kiddo, you don't have the KILLER INSTINCT. But I can see it in his eyes.

[Dole]

Cute kid!!

[Terra]

Sadie that is a "star quality" baby. As I'm sure your other child is. You make only the best.

[mburbank]

Wow. So you were a parent two years before I was.

I think a large age difference is helpful. My kids are five years apart and there's none of the ultra annoying sibling stuff I see so much of among their peers.

[sadie]

having and choosing not to use is not not having.

thanks! he's my sweets! right now, he's sitting in his little car seat/carrier thingy on a chair next to me. he's kicking his legs around and stretching his arms out; he's partial to the "HEIL" and the "I AM ZE CHAMPION!" he's been enjoying looking around for as long as it took to restart, check my email and get here. now, the pacifier's being spat out and the whine has begun. his eyes are large and glaring at me: "PICK ME UP NOW!" and by now, he's calmed down, sucking slowly on the paci and staring at the lamp behind me. it's definitely not boring.

i think the age difference is good, too, although girls are probably more likely to want to help out than boys. i heard this story yesterday about a three-year-old kid who tried to get her little baby sister out of the crib 'cause she was crying, and the baby fell and is now severely brain-damaged. i'd much rather the timidity.