I have a couple of friends who are expecting their second child shortly (including TBYC). Ours are 2 yrs and 6 months, and so I’ve been asked on a few occasions how having two kids compares to one. My reply is usually along the lines of saying: it seems like more than twice the work (for my wife -not for me – obviously!), there’s more potential for lack of sleep, everything takes much longer like eating a meal, getting ready to go out etc. But (and actually it’s a big but) it’s totally great and it feels like a proper wee family.
So I would definitely say two are better than one. There are also things that I’ve experienced that I would have missed out on without a second child. Take for example tonight during bath time (after Daniel had pooed twice in the bath), while I was in the other room, I heard my wife scream at the top of her voice:
“LUKE! You do NOT do a wee-wee on your brother! You do it on the toilet!”
Such fun!
All encouraging stuff. Perhaps Luke had noticed that a jelly-fish had stung Daniel and decided to take decisive action to relief his pain (probably unlikely).