As for being buddies, they don't have to be the same gender. DS would gladly play dollhouse with DD. While she was setting up the furniture and the doll mommy was rocking the doll baby the dad would be fighting off a dinosaur attack in the front yard. Once the dog got eaten but it upset DD so from then on they let the dinosaur eat the mail lady.

When DS wanted to set up the train DD was right there, loading all the cars with little zoo animals, giving them cute little names and telling them they were going to be released into the wild. Unfortunately the train cars always derailed and the animals went flying off the coffee table. There were no survivors, so sad.

Sometimes I miss my little munchkins. I guess they can't stay little forever. Gone are the days of doll babies and dinosaurs. Yeah, last weekend I had to go to the mall with DD because the prom dress she picked out with her friends was just a bit sleeztastic. I'm sure one day I'll miss that too, lol.

As for being buddies, they don't have to be the same gender. DS would gladly play dollhouse with DD. While she was setting up the furniture and the doll mommy was rocking the doll baby the dad would be fighting off a dinosaur attack in the front yard. Once the dog got eaten but it upset DD so from then on they let the dinosaur eat the mail lady.

When DS wanted to set up the train DD was right there, loading all the cars with little zoo animals, giving them cute little names and telling them they were going to be released into the wild. Unfortunately the train cars always derailed and the animals went flying off the coffee table. There were no survivors, so sad.

Sometimes I miss my little munchkins. I guess they can't stay little forever. Gone are the days of doll babies and dinosaurs. Yeah, last weekend I had to go to the mall with DD because the prom dress she picked out with her friends was just a bit sleeztastic. I'm sure one day I'll miss that too, lol.

Hey BG,

I'm not exactly in the position you were wanting to hear from, but I'll give you my opinion from another angle...

I, like you, really wanted 2 babies close together in age, so I could get over the diapers and be done with it and so they could be friends. When they hit school age, I could return to work etc.

It didn't happen for me. My daughter is 5 (and a half - can't forget that, she seems to think it's important, lol). And now DH and I are wondering if I even want to begin the baby craze all over again. She's been potty trained for almost 3 years now, she's going into grade 1, etc, etc - and I'm enjoying her company very much. She wants a sibling, my husband wants another baby, but do I want another 5 years at home? It's a really tough call.

Now that I'm past all that, and nearing the age where I only have a year or two left to be comfortable getting pregnant - the pressure is ON me to decide NOW. (*disclaimer* Plenty of people have babies well after my age... I'm not dissing a woman's choice to have a baby later in life. Just for me, and my family's plan, I have a cap on the age for me to get pregnant... based on how old our kids would be when DH is scheduled to retire from his career. We don't want teens at home when we're 60, for example.)

So, no matter what, if you know you want another baby, it doesn't hurt to start sooner than later. The later it goes, the more you could see your 'vision' for your family turning into something completely different. (and different isn't necessarily bad. Just for me, it's not ideal)