That's all good advice. Don't respond to the baby talk, except to say you can't understand it. Ignore the other behavior as long as everyone is safe. Denying him anything baby is only going to make it seem more appealing. Let him see for himself, it's not so good. Also, go through his baby book/pictures. He lives in the moment, the fact that he was a baby himself is maybe a fact he's heard, but doesn't remember or feel. Let him see he DID do all those baby things, and yet how much he has grown, how much he has learned, and can do for himself. My kids were each about 3 when the next one was born. It really is a great spacing. Soon you will see your first born fall in love, give love to his new sibling w/no expectations, unconditional. It will melt your heart! This will pass. Be patient. Remember how your first turned your life around, that is what he feels now. This is a big change in his life, he is figuring it out as best he can. Your whole family will readjust and it will be just fine.

MM...no need to measure yours...our growth on GE would in no way compare with our friends up north growth. I usually keep a GE in a pot and treat it as an annual just because it's so beautiful. This year my 3 eyed plant from last year is 1 eye....but that's ok...It's expected....I will just get another. Almost 20 years ago when I was first getting into hostas and knew nothing about what I "should" do with them, I planted a tini tiny Pandora's Box in clay under my big oak. It flourished! Grew and multiplied and was happy happy. But then I learned that it was very delicate and temperamental and wouldn't grow well in the south....sooo.... I dug it up and put her in a pot and babied and fed and she promptly died. Whatever you are doing is working beautifully. Do not move but you already know you will have to water...especially July thro Sept maybe Oct..depending on how our season goes. I use Miracle Grow tomato food early and later a little Osmocote on mine I am surprised that your Lowe's had it ...I always check out Lowe's and HD whenever I pass one but don't see many hostas much south of here. Your others look like f. Albomarginata....which do well for us.... IF you see any hostas that are at mailboxes or landscapers have used it will most likely be this.....Needs LOTS of water....If you want more varieties I have seen Guacamole, Blazing Saddles and Blue Angel at the stores....and they grow well here. Pretty maple... I have bought hostas that ended up having hvx and nematodes from good area nurseries and big name hosta folks at conventions....but have never gotten a sick plant from a big box store. In years past I did see some hvx there but they seem to have cleaned up most of it. Learn what you are looking for and you will be fine.

You guys would probably love the one where the snow was over knee high in places and Shasta got loose and went running around in the trees (she would never go very far away) the loose leash got caught on some trees and she just stops still and waits. I struggle through over knee deep snow to get to her and free her from the tree. I start to struggle out and my boot gets pulled off one foot and I have to fish my stocking foot down through the snow to retrieve the boot.....or the time when walking down another slope and she went off after a squirrel and slammed my knee into a big pine tree and it was swollen for 3 months which probably kept it from being very painful. She is a baby, but she is instinctively a hunter and something switches when she sees a rabbit, or squirrel, groundhog, turkey, deer....almost anything. ...but, she is beautiful. Jon

I have removed a blue eye from my GE. It has happened for the last three years. They kind of sneak up on you. This year I was able to see the blue eye right at the pipping stage. I pulled it out.