How to act like a new mom the second time around....

#1. Take a list of questions with you to the doctor's office for the 2 week checkup. I didn't do this with Thing #1, so why did I have so many questions with Thing #2?

#2. Obesessively worry about your child's poop. Oh, yes. She went 24 hours without pooping, and I called the doctor. And then I called again when she went 3 days without pooping. It's been about 48 hours again, and after consulting Dr. Google, I've found this is totally normal.

#3. Obsessively worry about everything she's taking in. I haven't, fortunately, taken to keeping a food journal of what I eat to see what might be causing her to be constipated. That might show me all the food that I shouldn't be eating.

Typical Second Child:

#1. Much fewer pictures of Baby Boo. I feel bad about it, but I don't have nearly as many pictures.

#2. Baby Boo needs a bath badly. But Her Majesty the two-year old makes that a wee bit difficult.

#3. Poor thing has very few clothes that are new to her. Hand me downs are great. (I being an eldest child never had to wear hand me downs).


So, I need to get a bathroom scale so that I can obsessively track my weight. I can say that when I had my last doctor's appointment before Boo was born, I weight 201 lbs (eek!). Three weeks or so after she was born, I weight myself on my parent's bathroom scale and was down to 175.5. That means I had lost the baby weight and then a little. I hope I haven't gained any back.

I can only stand so much Barney and Dora before my head explodes. I can feel it getting close. I guess that means that I shouldn't let my child watch so much TV. But, that means that I can't watch so much TV.

Am I the only one addicted to Project Runway? Waaaaaaayyyyy too involved in this show. Can't miss it. I have it set to record all the new episodes. Of course, I found the secret to getting my husband to let me watch it when it comes on (and he watches it with me). I rub his back. He gets a long backrub and completely tunes out what is on the TV. I rub his back almost every night anyway, so it's not much more for me to do.

I forgot how exciting it was to watch a baby smile. It's so adorable. And, this time around, she has her older sister to smile at. When the doctor asks if she tracks movement with her eyes, I can honestly say that she does -- however, she has trouble keeping up with her older sister. She does try though. She just has an adorable smile.

My 2 year old definitely looked (looks) like me. I think Boo looks like her daddy. I can see much more of his face in hers. If I mention this to him, he apologizes. How rude! She's a cutie. Is it wrong to call your baby a little monkey? There is this face she does where she looks just like a little monkey!