The second child

Oh the second child. You know the one with the incomplete baby book. You have hundreds of pictures of the first baby and a few of the second baby. You can remember the first smile and the first time baby number one rolled over and everything is documented perfectly in the baby book. But for baby number two you can hardly remember if you put clean clothes on them today. Another unfortunate problem for the second child is that everything they get is a hand-me-down. This can be extremely problematic for the little brother who has an older sister.

Here is Caedan in Olivia's old pink winter boats. Can you see the look of embarrassment on his face.
Here is Caedan on his new hand-me-down bike. Oh yes that is a purple bike with flowers and streamers complete with the Strawberry Shortcake helmet.How much do you think therapy is going to cost us?

Favorite

These are my favorite pictures from the weekend.

T-Ball on Saturday

I love the kid in the back of the picture who is facing away from the game and playing in the dirt!

Sunday evening we went for a walk and Caedan sat with his hands behind his head the entire time.

Sleep

Dear Caedan,

Lately sleep seems to be the biggest problem that we are having. According to information that I was reading on the Internet a toddler between 1 and 2 years old should get 10-13 hours of sleep. On average you are falling short of this. Some things that you should keep in mind as you are sleeping:

* 5:45am it just too early for your parents to get up.
* Just because the sun is up does not mean that we should get up.
* It is ok to sleep in on the weekend. We would be happy if you slept until 8:00am on a weekend.

* It is really not necessary for you to wake up before the alarm on a work morning.

Keeping you up later does not seem to help. The tin foil over your window to make your room darker really did not seem to help. We have been using the noise machine for a few months now and we have tried it on all of the settings. We could do without the bags under our eyes. Your parents really function better on a good nights sleep. We are running out of ideas to help you sleep better. So please, we beg you, tonight lets start down the path of good sleeping.

Love,

Mom and Dad

P.S. Please tell us that you are not teasing us with the night light like you did the first few nights with the noise machine!