The second child?

I had thought that the second child would be easier to take care of than the first. I mean, it's old hat now right? WRONG! My son was pretty easy. He was, and mostly still is, a very happy, independent little dude. I don't know if it's because she is a girl, but she seems to be more demanding and somewhat of a drama queen. LOL She's got the greatest little lip quiver I've ever seen... and she seems to know when to use it! I am not sure why I thought the second would be easier, I mean, it's not just that you have a baby, but you also have a toddler to care for at the same time. I never even thought of that! Silly, I know. I mean what did I think, that I was going to have another baby and magically the first one would care for himself? Duh! Now that Gracie is over four weeks old and we've moved her into her own room, I am hoping that the quality of sleep that I get will improve. Likely it won't because I'll have one ear and one eye on the baby monitor all night long, but at least Stephen will get better sleep. He won't really hear all her grunting and groaning after each feeding. I swear, it doesn't matter how much you burp her, she's still gassy. Luckily she does know how to work it out herself if we can't get the bubbles out during burp time, so we don't have bouts of screaming in agony. Ok, we've had a couple but nothing that a good backrub, or worst case scenario, a couple of drops of oval can't get out. Now if we could find a "magic" potion to get the kids to nap at the same time during the day, we'd be all set. As I speak Grace is (somewhat) happy in her bouncer and Zander should be getting up from his nap at any time now. And then it's off to the library to pick up a copy of "The Happiest Baby on the Block" and "The Happiest Toddler on the Block". I'll let you know if they help!