Pumpkin Patch 2014

Things You Should Know About a 3rd Baby

3rd babies might be the chunkiest babies. For many reasons. Maybe they eat all night. Like at 11, 2 and 5. When they are nearly 7 months old. Maybe their moms don't care because they know how fast time goes and secretly like snuggling in bed with a little one snacking all night. Maybe 3rd babies moms know that soon that little baby nuzzled in the crook of that mama's arm will be in Kindergarten. And that mama wishes she could just freeze time. 

3rd babies get to eat their first dose of baby food at 6.5 months. And have it so inconsistently it is as if they really haven't ever had it. 3rd babies don't get rice cereal, or start with veggies, or have homemade pureed baby food. Instead they get bananas and peaches. Since they are more yummy and their mom knows they'll eventually eat what they want anyways. 

3rd babies have less pictures of them, but their mama pays more attention to each phase because she knows it will be onto the next phase in a matter of days. 

3rd babies hang out at the big kids' swim lessons and wish they could get in the water. 

3rd babies are swaddled til they are too old to be swaddled and sleep in a rock and play until their little toes hang over the edge because their parents are pretending they are still a newborn. 

3rd babies break the whale rules and use it in the tub with the big kids.  Don't let this picture fool you, 3rd babies may only take baths once every 2 weeks. Spit up may be caked under their necks and they may smell a bit stinky. 

But 3rd babies don't care.

 And their mamas don't either.