Comparing

Obviously I'm not very creative and I basically repeat what I did with Jonas with Maggie. He was 3 months old in this picture and Maggie is 6 months. She doesn't have as many stuffed animals as Jonas did, but Jonas' buddies are slowly coming out of boxes to become apart of Maggie's group. Piglet and red Minnie are the only buddies Maggie was around to "pick" out. The rest were bought for her before she was born. Jonas saw Lady and I couldn't resist telling him it was his because he loved Lady, but technically it was bought for Maggie. Anyway, that was a big tangent! ;)

Point is will I ever stop comparing Maggie to Jonas? I don't do it in a.."oh I wish you were more like your brother".. kind of way. More of the "your brother was like this and you are like this". I think it's normal to compare your children to one another. Isn't it?? Today was Maggie's first day of PT/OT. I found myself saying, "well Jonas never did that, or Jonas did this" a lot. I worried if that was annoying. He's the only thing I know and I'm still learning Maggie.
Maggie did amazingly well with her therapists. I think Maggie is going to be social, which I am way happy about. Don't get me wrong, I loved Jonas' personality! It was a challenge with his disease though. I think what it boiled down to was that Jonas was extremely shy and having strangers come and handle him was overwhelming. Plus I do think he got very discouraged that it was so hard to move his little body in anyway. Maggie is the queen at acting shy, but really it's just a little flirty, bashful, coy look she gives. Of course she did that at first, but then was smiling the whole time, talking to them while they were stretching her, and basically showing off. That was never the case with Jonas. It was miserable to have therapy with Jonas because he hated it so bad. It makes me really sad to think about it actually. Things eventually changed as he got older and we had a change in PT's. Once a couple new PT's started working with him, and using a different approach, I think they helped him see that it wasn't so bad. I am so grateful to those ladies! Lucky us, Maggie will have that same PT, but we will have a new OT. Hopefully we can have a better start and Maggie can feel good about therapy. Things look that way so far!