live wires

When NJ was a baby Golden and I both noticed that he was significantly less interested in being held quietly than other babies. We didn't understand how other parents could keep their young children in the main church service without the kids making a scene every week. I chalked it up to NJ being a boy who needed to move around and told Golden that when we had a girl things would be different.

Fast forward two-and-a-half years and we have CD, who is a girl who is more of a live wire than NJ ever was. She has been in the sanctuary during service, but only when she could nap through it. When she was born the doctor and one of the nurses noted that they had never seen a baby wiggle so much in the process of being born. She is constantly into stuff and is now walking at eleven months (one month before NJ did). Anyone who knows Golden and me very well will not understand where our kids could have gotten these traits.

We are happy and frustrated at the same time that we have kids like this. First, it is probably a good thing for our kids to be explorers and have high metabolisms. They get into stuff because they are inquisitive and persistent, which are two very good traits. The bad thing is that neither Golden nor I have anywhere near either kid's level of energy and she is stuck at home all day just trying to keep up.

To those who have had multiple kids, how did you keep up? Were yours over the place? Did you have a general strategy? To those who haven't had more than one kid but plan on it some day, be prepared.