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\"img_4889\"<\/a>In the spirit of not being one of those women that always brags about how “fabulous” her kid is I don’t normally like to go on and on about how great I think my kid is.\u00a0 Today I’m going to do it so that I remember how easy he makes our lives to compare against baby #2.\u00a0 As far as I know all kids are like this. (Reed is 5 months, 3 weeks old.\u00a0)<\/p>\n

Reed doesn’t spit up.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 Every now and then the child will spit up a mouthful if he has over eaten, but that’s it.\u00a0 Up until a few weeks ago when we started him on solid foods he had never even worn a bib.\u00a0 Now that he eats solid food he needs a bib, but once he’s out of the high chair the bib comes off.\u00a0 I never understood why all the diaper bag lists online say to pack an extra change of clothes for you and the baby in the diaper bag.\u00a0 Not once has he spit up on me in public where I needed to change my shirt or his outfit.<\/p>\n

The child doesn’t cry.\u00a0 Several times a week we are asked by strangers and friends alike “is he always like this?”\u00a0 The answer is yes.\u00a0 He really is always like that.\u00a0 Reed definitely has Randy’s laid back, happy\u00a0personality.\u00a0 He likes to play by himself and really likes to roll around on the ground on his blanket.\u00a0 All alone.\u00a0 He also loves to play in his exersaucer (thank you Swayzes for lending it to us!!).\u00a0 He will entertain himself in there for 30 minutes to an hour before he gets tired of it.<\/p>\n

Finally to the best part, sleep.\u00a0 Reed loves his crib and loves to sleep (just like his mommy).\u00a0 At night I try to feed him one last time around 9-9:30.\u00a0 Many nights he is wide awake right after I feed him.\u00a0 I change his diaper and put him in his crib wide awake.\u00a0 I will hear him for 10 minutes or so rolling around, and then nothing.\u00a0 I go back in to check on him and he will be sound asleep.\u00a0 He does this almost every night.\u00a0 I can probably count on one hand the number of times he has woken up in the night (since he started sleeping through the night around 7 weeks).\u00a0 He then wakes up somewhere between 5 and 6am to eat again.\u00a0 When I’m done feeding him he goes right back to sleep until Randy wakes him up at 8 to head to the nanny.\u00a0 He takes a 30-60 minute morning nap and\u00a0a several hour\u00a0afternoon nap (again, he really likes to put himself to sleep).\u00a0 Then we start it all over again.<\/p>\n

Reed, you are a wonderful kid and you make us so very happy!!!<\/p>\n

Mom<\/p>\n