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He is the one that smiles and chats with me during the day…

 

I love this Charlie, and I’m afraid that not many people are going to get to see him for a while. Daddy is only familiar with angry Charlie and sleeping Charlie (although not as much as we would like).  

The Only Thing That’s True Is… Every Child Is Different
It’s the overriding consensus we’ve been getting ever since we started this parenting gig, but it doesn’t really ring true until you have an actual second child to compare everything to. Everything seems rosy in retrospect, and you find yourself wondering why Charlie doesn’t do things as easy as Simon, when really maybe it wasn’t easier… it was just different.

Bottle-feeding!! Who knew that something so EASY with Simon would become such a nightmare with Charlie? I guess I should thank my lucky stars that both of them have been such amazing breastfeeders. They latched right away and no sore or cracked nipples. They both never seems bothered by what I ate, and happily took the breast. Charlie takes it a little too happily… he eats all the time, every hour when he is awake, and has started refusing to take anything else. Boo!

So, needless to say, anyone without the magic boobs doesn’t get to see Charlie the way I see him. With a full belly, he is seriously one of the sweetest babies alive. He started cooing and smiling long before Simon did. And I just felt the need to share :)