Second Time Baby Milestones
Posted on July 25, 2007 - Filed Under Kids, Personal |
I think it is really easy to miss milestones with your second baby, especially when said baby comes right on the heels of the first one! It just isn´t top on your list of priorities, noticing that first bubble blowing moment, or the first time your baby smiles on purpose. I mean, you notice, but it isn´t a “HOLY COW! Did you see that?!!!” moment.
Well, I feel kind of bad for second borns. Poor Dante. He doesn´t get nearly the amount of attention his big brother got early on in life. And he is hitting all the milestones earlier than Dorian, but we forget to make a big deal out of it! He´ll probably grow up horribly traumatized by this.
It´s funny how different two brothers can be. Dorian started talking early. I mean, REALLY early. At four months, he would call me, “Mama? Inky.” which meant he was stinky. And he always was when he said it, so it wasn´t a coincidence. But he took a while to learn to roll over. In fact, so long that I thought he was developmentally delayed. He took forever to crawl and didn´t walk until he was a year and one month old. This might have something to do with the fact that every time he hit a physical milestone, he had to have a surgery, which was not intentional, of course, but you have to wonder if he thought it was!
Dante, on the other hand, is already pushing himself up when he is on his stomach and he loves nothing more than to “stand” on my lap. He loves watching the computer screen while I type, as well, which is something Dorian never enjoyed! It will be interesting to see what Dante does as he grows.
In the meantime, I´m trying to remember to take plenty of photos of both boys so Dante won´t feel left out when he grows up and realizes that his parents forgot the exact date that he laughed for the first time!
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Ooooh yes, very different indeed. Doesn’t even matter if they are from the same family…they can seem like they are completely unrelated in so many ways when they grow up. Thanks for stopping by today. I’ll link into to you.
You know, he’ll never know if you fudge a little in the ol’ baby book. I do that a lot. If I know the general age he did something I just choose a date and write it down. Maybe it’s not perfectly honest, but at least when he grow up he’ll think all things are equal!
Ev, you don´t realize how different siblings are until you have them yourself. I never noticed that my sisters and I were very different, although my mom always said so.
Jessie,
I am probably going to end up doing just that. Lying to my children. Sigh. I just found a piece of software on Download.com that is supposed to help you keep track of these things, so we shall see.