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I agree. It is an experience like no other and the time seems to fly on.  Some people have said, you need to put him in the crib and let him cry. I say, no, to that. Babies need the cuddles and contact, everything is brand new to them, a mystery, of which they do not yet know how to control their emotions of. 

I am sure she is still that happy girl due to your love and care. It makes so much difference.

Thank you. We are both sleep deprived but very happy.

Time does fly at that cause it seems like it was only yesterday since my daughter was that little girl I used to have on my lap. She is so precious to me and I’v always been very proud of her.

She is now 18 and getting ready to graduate from high school ... and I helped get her her first car cause she’s done so well in school...mostly As and Bs and then she’ll be in college soon.
I love my little girl. 🙂

And yes, it really does make a big difference when you love them as they love you...with all your heart.

Yeah, I agree. I couldn’t just let her cry in her crib, so I’d get her out and take her a walk outside, or just sit and be with her in the living room. Sometimes with the TV on, but usually I’d just sit there to talk and play with her.

I really am happy for the both of you and wish you both the best with your little one.

Sure. There are times they can drive you bananas, but they come out of it. lol
Their little feelings can be hurt so easy by their parents, or friends in school, but it’ll work out with time.

Yep, same here. We got the girl who is so easy and the boy makes me want to scream some days. Lol, the latest trick from him was he hacked into one of our phone accounts or thought he was going to but we fixed that one. He is a smart one.

Lmao 😂
I never had that problem.

Kids are smart these days...they can figure out stuff we would never have thought of...great kids even though we may not like it...LOL...Gotta love their little brains....LOL...

I so much agree.
Each child had their own personality, so you have to treat them with a slight difference from the other. There is a happily married couple here that’s had 6 children and each one is different. Some are like night and day. lol! So you have to raise each one somewhat different because some are more prone to fear while some do not fear as much.
But much of that has to do with the mother while the child is in her womb. They share her feelings.

Of course, some of this is genetics, while the rest it the child’s environment. They do feel any stress, or love from the mother.

Hope you didn’t mind my interject.

My stepdaughters are twins and their personalities are totally opposite. Their half sister is different than both of them and my daughter is also her own person. Somehow, how our household remains civil, although a bit chaotic at times. No one here has similar personalities. Not even close to it.

Stripping.....LOL.

tip of the hat to the simple minded fake Australian and her encephalitic girlfriend who learned to pile that hair high to cover that swollen head. 

Despite enormous amounts of video evidence to the contrary those two insisted that i am a stripper. Their pics should have been with the definition of willful ignorance.

But overall they get along and that’s the most important part of any family.

Indeed.

They get along well. They all have their own interests and hobbies, which takes them in separate directions. I am very proud of them. Of course,they are not without their teenage moments

Yep, same here. We got the girl who is so easy and the boy makes me want to scream some days. Lol, the latest trick from him was he hacked into one of our phone accounts or thought he was going to but we fixed that one. He is a smart one.

Similar for us...the 2 girls were easy to deal with, even when they reached their teenage years. My son was good too, it’s just that I had different worries with him than I did the girls. They all turned out well though, so every bit of it was worth it. Just seemed like with every kid, we had to find out what worked. What worked for one kid, didn’t necessarily work for the next one.

I so much agree.
Each child had their own personality, so you have to treat them with a slight difference from the other. There is a happily married couple here that’s had 6 children and each one is different. Some are like night and day. lol! So you have to raise each one somewhat different because some are more prone to fear while some do not fear as much.
But much of that has to do with the mother while the child is in her womb. They share her feelings.

Of course, some of this is genetics, while the rest it the child’s environment. They do feel any stress, or love from the mother.

Hope you didn’t mind my interject.

My wife and I used to joke that about every 8 years we forgot what a pain in the ass having a baby was. But with each one, it was a brand new learning curve. By the time I had the first one figured out, we’d have another one and it was literally like starting over.

My wife came from a family of 8 kids, so I can only imagine what her parents went through.

You had quite an adventure with so far spaced births. Is true, every generation brings new ideas about parenting. Even when "we" adopted my daughter, she was not an infant or even a toddler, but still books i have read about parenting are a bit different now than those read back then. I doubt any book or "expert" or trendy advice is going to apply to all children, as every child is individual.
I look back and smile, about four yrs ago i had one child, now i am mama presiding over a fam with three 14 yro olds, an 11 yr old and a one month old. Would never have imagined this would be.  Also would not trade it for the world.

Thank you. Yours seem to have made their own place in the world which is a hallmark of good parenting. I know some older people who are very upset over their children being on their own, having their own lives. Is that not the purpose of parenting and the life you raised them to have, i always want to ask.

I always felt that the job of any parent was to give your kids the tools they needed to be good adults. We weren’t overly strict with them. I figured we needed to give them some wiggle room so they could figure things out for themselves. Our number one rule was: don’t get killed. We can work through everything else. Saw so many of my friends raise their kids in a super strict environment. Would let them do much of anything on their own or make any decisions on their own. Those were the ones that went wild when they got out on their own.