When Eve was first born Lex had real
trouble dealing with the crying. Whenever she cried he would
kind of freak out and start throwing things or crying himself.
I kept explaining that Eve can’t use words yet and we made a
game out of guessing why she was crying. It seems to have
worked. Lately whenever she cries Lex says “Eve is crying” and
goes over to her and asks “Why are you crying Eve?” It’s very
cute. I sometimes have to prevent him from laying across her
while asking, but he means well. :) I’m so happy about this
development because when she cried and then he cried I think
they just spurred each other on and gave me a real headache!
Now her crying is much more manageable.

We were at story time today and I was talking with a guy
who just had his second baby. He said his daughter (a few weeks
older than Lex) wasn’t handling it well and really didn’t like
sharing mommy. She is a very cute girl. Towards the end of
story time Eve started crying and this little girl started
giving me the evil eye. I think she was thinking “I came here
to get away from crying babies!!” Her dad kept trying to show
her Eve and explain that all babies cry, but she wanted no part
of it. I told her dad it would probably get better. Her baby
brother is just 8 days old, so hopefully within the next few
weeks she starts to adjust.