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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]17:59 here - also yes, for sports you’ll be pulled in different directions and teams almost always

I also never had the youngest at each time on a strict nap schedule [/quote]

NP here.  The nice thing about this age gap IMO though is that, by the time the youngest is old enough to be involved in a lot of activities, the oldest will probably be about driving age and can start to do things independently.  We have a 2 year age gap between #1 and #2 and then 5 years between #2 and #3, and while we had a couple crazy years, the oldest now is very independent so we only need to run two kids around to stuff.  For us, the early years of #3 were easy because she just tagged along to stuff, or DH or I would do something fun with the older two while the baby napped, and these later years are becoming easy now that the older ones are teens and self-sufficient.  There were just some tough in between years.  But there will be tough years with 3 kids regardless.
In terms of relationships, agree with other posters this is personality driven.  Our kids each have nice 1-to-1 relationships with each other, but certainly with some ups and downs, but the dynamic with all three is different than when there's just two of them.  I like that they each have special relationships with each other but also can hang out all together from time to time.  As the parents it's very hard to find individual time with each kid.  It happens occasionally but usually in relation to the kid's activity, like I'll take one of them to a sports game and then we'll grab ice cream after.  Certainly no trips away with just one kid or anything like that.[/quote]

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