The Youngest Child

The baby of the family is always spoiled. I think more often than not that is just the facts of life. Oldest children hate hearing this, the poor neglected middle children even more... but it is just life.

Case in point:

• -For Lucas (and then handed down to Alex) we bought the second cheapest car seat we could find. It was safe and great, just one of the cheap ones. Ryder--well he has the Cadillac of car seats a Chicco 30. And man let me tell you it is nice, so easy to adjust.. love it. But hey, he was small and we had to find a good car seat that was good for preemies, especially with our long drive home after his discharge.

But there are benefits to being the oldest too. The oldest child's baby book is always religiously written in. The oldest child gets all new clothes (no hand me downs available). The oldest child gets the most adult interaction and ends up with the highest IQ. And usually there are the most pictures of the oldest child (just ask my little sister-the baby of the family- who there are practically NO baby pictures of).

Well that last one holds true, except for in our family. I have always liked taking pictures.. but it has just been the last couple of years that I have gotten really good at it and also have a good camera to go along with my new skills. And so our little Ryder at 4 weeks old already has more baby pictures then both Lucas and Alex combined.

So what can I say, you win some you lose some... unless you are the middle child then well you just seem to lose. --Written from a bitter sort-of-middle-child

Another spoiled baby picture from our last photo shoot.