Differences

Some have asked, and probably others have wondered, how is Wyatt different from Lila (as a baby)? I think maybe they are more different than they are similar. Here are some of the differences that spring to mind:

Wyatt's cry is a tolerable-sounding, low, whiny cry. Lila's cry was a high-pitched shriek that could shatter glass. For those of you who heard it, you know I'm not exaggerating.

However, Wyatt is 10 times as stubborn as Lila was I believe. Which means if he is mad about something, he will cry, and cry, and cry... and cry. Lila would cry herself to sleep after 15 minutes. Not Wyatt.

When he's not mad about something, Wyatt is way more smiley than Lila ever was. Lila was happy; she just didn't smile as much. Nor did she laugh. We've gotten several laughs from Wyatt already.

Wyatt isn't sitting up yet which Lila could do at 6 months (see my previous post). However, when Lila started scooting, she would only scoot backwards. In the past couple of days, Wyatt has started to scoot forwards (sort of doing the army crawl). Maybe he will crawl before he sits?

Lila was sleeping through the night at 6 weeks. Like 8 or 9 hours, folks. Yes, we didn't know how good we had it. Wyatt just started doing that in the past two weeks. And even still, he will sometimes wake up once in the middle of the night and take 10-15 minutes to cry himself back to sleep. 

And last, Lila was a fantastic eater. Almost from her first bite of solid food, she opened her mouth as wide as she could get it for the next bite. Wyatt's first "bite" of food was followed by the cutest little baby grimace you've ever seen. I'm surprised he didn't spit it out that's how disgusted he looked. (Of course, it WAS rice cereal which is pretty tasteless.) Since then we've tried oatmeal cereal and sweet potatoes. He's doing a lot better with the sweet potatoes but he still wants to be done after maybe ten bites. And no wide open mouth either.

So there you go.