Compare and Contrast

Ways in Which Charlotte is Different From Jack and Baylor:

• Charlotte does not tolerate a pacifier; therefore, when she is hungry, she is hungry now.

• Her hair is much more manageable than their mops of ratty curls.

• Little girls have so many more creases than little boys!

• While her brothers took three months to reach the 8 lb. mark, at three weeks she is already almost 9 lbs. and has officially outgrown newborn-sized diapers.

• She definitely has colic. (I am so thankful that I did not have twins with colic the first time around.)

• Charlotte's feet are ginormous. She never fit into the delightful blue booties that her Aunt Janie so lovingly knit for her; in contrast, as babies the boys took so long to grow that they often never wore things people bought for them because the clothing was out-of-season before it was their size.

• She is already grinning back at me some. I didn't receive smiles from the boys until they were over three months old--they were such little slugs, I swear.

• She doesn't stink nearly as much as they do.

• On the other hand, her diapers are much more explosive than theirs. (I should interject here that I figured up that we go through approximately 35-40 diapers a day.)

• When she pees out of surprise during a diaper change, it just puddles, instead of shooting up and into my mouth or onto my dry clean-only curtains.

• We never had to use the extra leg support fasteners on the Baby Bjorn carrier with her because she is such a great, healthy size. Baylor and Jack used those fasteners for a long, long time.

• She does not like a bottle--the boys used bottles in the NICU from Day 1.

• She is my sweet baby girl!