Kiddos

It's hard when you have kids not to compare the two. Olive was my first. She is probably the most easy going kids I've ever known. She goes with the flow and is always game for whatever we are doing. Olive is also very petite. When she was an infant she was not an aggressive eater. We felt victorious just to get an ounce down her. She ate about every 3 to 4 hours, and even then we had to make her eat. She still doesn't eat that much. She has good eating days and bad. She also has pretty much slept through the night from the moment she was born. We would wake her up at night for nighttime feedings, but other than that she didn't wake up. Even when she graduated from the crib to a toddler bed it was an easy transition for her. She just went with the flow. Olive has never slept in our bed. She sleeps in her room and doesn't even require a night light. She is small, but she is tough, surprisingly rough and independent. Always has been.

I know Titus is only a few days old, but he doesn't exhibit any of Olive's traits. Well, he may be tough he definitely has shown some toughness. For the most part though they are polar opposites. First of all Titus eats like a horse. In his very first feeding in the hospital he ate 30ml. Since then he constantly drinks 2 to 2 1/2 ounces a feeding. Instead of eating every 3 to 4 hours he wants to eat every 2 hours! This means the night time feedings are double what we were use to with Olive. Also we don't have to wake him up to eat, he wakes us up. At first I wasn't sure if hunger was the reason for him waking up, but alas it is. He weighs more than Olive did, is taller than Olive was and requires more than Olive ever did. So far he doesn't seem very go with the flow. He seems to have his own idea of what he wants. The one thing, as stated before, that he and Olive both seem to have is toughness. Olive never cries when she gets a shot and so far Titus hasn't either. He didn't even cry when the nurse was beating his back trying to make him cry to clear his lungs. He just looked at her like, "Is that all you got?"

With all that said I am not complaining. He is perfect. Olive is perfect too. I am probably the luckiest Dad in the world. Thankful.