Baby Similarities

We are better parents to Lola than we ever were to Raina at week one. I am shocked by how easy Lola's first week has been, solely based on the real-life experience we had with Raina. It's not that Lola is an easier kid or anything; instead, poor Raina had to teach us how to be parents and she suffered from our very flawed trial and error method of parenting. Little Lola doesn't have that experience much at all. She makes the same faces and same sounds that Raina did and they mean the same things they did with Raina. So we know what Lola wants BEFORE she has to cry and tell us something's wrong. It's remarkable. I thought having two kids would be exponentially more difficult, but, right now (knock on wood), it's pretty okay.

What makes their facial expressions different is the evil dimple. Raina has a dimple directly below her eye and it comes out when she's screaming and crying, hence the "evil" dimple status. Lola doesn't have an evil dimple or dimples at all, really, and that makes her look significantly different.

Lola now makes adorable mid- and post-nursing smiles (she started yesterday) and I flashed back to all the nursing smiles I got from Raina. Good memories.