Preparing one baby for another.....

What do people always tell you to do before you think about having a baby?  They tell you to get a pet first to get in some practice for taking care of something or someone.  What they don't tell you is that when you are ready for a baby that you have to prepare your pet for your expected little one's arrival.  With that said, Shawn and I have been working with Kole on preparing him for the baby.  We started with showing him the baby's room and allowing him to go in and sniff around to start getting comfortable with the room.  Periodically, when we are upstairs we will ask him to show us where the baby's room is located.  He usually will go right up to the door and paw or hit it to shows where the room is located.  We then got a baby swing that we put up in the room.  We encouraged him to get close to it so he would not be scared of it.  He has gotten to the point he will push it with his paw to make it swing.  Then we bought a small baby doll and put it in the swing so replicate the baby.  He is still trying to figure the doll out and its roll and purpose.  We have a video of him showing us where the baby's room is at. 

Recently, we got our stroller and car seat.  We have been placing the car seat various places downstairs.  Initially, he did not want to have anything to do with it and barked some.  Now he will go up to it and sniff it and some times he will paw at it.  However, the stroller is a whole different story.  When you start pushing it around the house, he will start barking at it.  The barking is getting better each day, but he tends to stay away from it when your are pushing it.  He has started going near it when it sits still but still exhibits some apprehension about getting too close to it.  We were able to get a picture of him next to the car seat, but we needed a little help from daddy to feel more comfortable with being next to it.