What I'm trying to say isn't that I feel inadequate - but rather that my son isn't afraid to act on his instincts. As an adult, I, and my husband, feel silly doing the same thing in silly voices. DS1 plays "ring a ring a rosy" with DS2 and flops his head on the baby's belly. This has DS2 in gales of laughter - and it's something that would never occur to me.

Our not-as-little-as-we-think babies can teach us so much about interacting with our younger babies.