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oh no! Well, maybe it's a good thing so he can get over this clingy-ness before the baby comes? Wagon Jr. was a little clingy towards us and we just upped the attention we paid to him (answering him right away, responding to him very enthusiastically etc) and the clingy-ness eventually turned to affection. He's not clingy in general though so I can't really help. Maybe you can be very consistent in what you do when you leave, like explain where you're going, have him repeat you (I always do this... I say, "daddy's at work! can you say, daddy's at work?" then he likes to announce it over and over, and that distracts him from the fact that daddy's not there). These days Wagon Jr. has also been responding well to "don't cry, it's ok" and then the explanation of why it's ok.

It's so hard to figure out what works when they are changing so much so quickly...

@MrsWagon-great suggestion on having them repeat you; DH has been leaving for work before DD gets up in the morning and I spend most of my morning telling her that he has gone to work with her asking "why or where's daddy" constantly. I am going to have to try your suggestion.

@Banana-we're finding the same thing with our LO and I wish I knew why. We dropped DH off at his car on Sunday morning on our way to church and DD screamed for daddy the whole 5 min it took us to get there. He arrived about 1 min after us and she was perfectly fine.

Hopefully it is a phase! My LO has been clingy her entire life so I don't really have any advice. The whole explaining thing doesn't work for her. She just follows me around! I have noticed that she'll let me out of her sight for a little bit longer sometimes now. Baby steps, I guess. Everyone tells me that they just grow out of it eventually.

@banana: yeah, the bright side is that I guess it means they really love us? Haha!

Haha I thought of you this morning. We drop off Wagon Jr. at daycare together, and these days Wagon Sr. goes in alone with him while I sit in the car and wave goodbye from the window. For some reason this morning he was saying "Mommy go in too, Mommy go in too!" as they went into the door... then a few seconds later Wagon Sr. appears and gestures to me to come in. I go in and lo and behold, Wagon Jr. is having a fit, tears rolling down his face, screaming "Mommy Mommy Mommy" and all the teachers are standing there totally dumbfounded, saying "wow, he never does this!" I picked him up, we went to wash his hands together, and then he happily walked into his classroom and didn't even look back. He did go to the window and watched us leave as I blew him kisses and waved with a big smile on my face as we drove away.

Stressful, but flattering.

@banana: yeah, he kind of freaked the first time I didn't come inside as well but that was weeks ago. Today we were talking about it as we drove away and I think he misses me because I used to do bedtime every night, but now Wagon Sr. puts him to bed so I don't have to carry him over to the crib and lift him over the crib wall. So I'm going to do bedtime a little more often I think.

Our little men even freak out at the same time... what the heck!!!

@banana: hehe... the BEAM is just so cute. It's the perfect word to describe their look of pure joy and love. I know exactly what you're talking about!!!