I never post about anything really, which is fine, cause i am busy and rarely seem to have the time for self-reflection that posting requires, but this topic keeps kicking around in my head so here goes.

Alana is a remarkably good baby.   Not just cute, and sweet, and smiley, but good:   Quiet.   Sleepy.   Only cries if she has a reason.   Basically, low maintenance.   Even the daycare staff have commented on it; everyone loves her.   She has all the baby-pros and none or fewer–she still poops and barfs–of the cons. For awhile we thought, maybe she’s stupid or something, but I don’t think so…she seems to be hitting the same milestones as G, maybe even more.   Jason doesn’t agree, but I think she could be smarter than G.

Example:   I finally understand what all the baby toys are for.   When G was a baby, if you put her in the baby gym, she laid there and cried.   If you gave her a rattle, she dropped it.   We put all sorts of toys on her car seat; she ignored them.   The only thing that got her attention was Baby Einstein, which she watched obsessively.   It was like she was too busy being pissed off to enjoy anything.   Not so with Alana.   She will play for long stretches with a rattle, or those millions of links that seem to just appear when you have a baby, or in her gym, grabbing at the toys and pulling and rolling around.   Amazing.   She entertains HERSELF.   Unbelievable.

Oh yeah, and she sleeps through the night.   Like ALL the way through:   8 pm-6 am.   By herself.   Exceptional.   Genevieve STILL doesn’t do that.

I guess it’s good we had G first when we didn’t know any better.   I thought all babies were like her.   Explains the exasperated, exhausted look I saw on my mom’s face when I came home after leaving her to take care of a 3-month old G while I was at work one day.   Some babies, apparently, sleep.   Who knew.