Anyone have two relatively close together and then a straggler third?

I've only got one kid myself, but the family in which I grew up is similar to this. My two older brothers were a year apart, and I was born 7 1/2 years after the youngest of those two. Maybe I can answer a few of your questions from my point of view I don't recall ever really feeling left out. The age gap was large enough that I wasn't really interested in doing most of what my older brothers were doing anyway. That said, they did play with me sometimes, and they were definitely there to help me (my brother gave me "sitting up" lessons when I was an infant, for example ). I don't remember much from when I was a small child, but we definitely played games and things when I was an older child. We never really had an issue of two of us playing and intentionally leaving out the third. The three of us were quite close (we've grown apart now that we have our own families, but we still enjoy each other's company).

I loved growing up as the youngest with that age gap. I had (and continue to have) what I see as the benefit of having siblings, but I had the luxuries of an only child when I was old enough to want them (when I was in high school, for example, I didn't have to share a bathroom or the telephone or negotiate for the family car). I think that the gap worked well for my brothers, too. They were also old enough to babysit me, which was helpful to my parents. Hope this helps!

like a PP said I only have one but my sister and I are a little over 6 years appart I am 23 and she is 29 from the huge gap growing up between us in my personal expeareance I loved haveing someone to look up to when I was very young my mother said she was extreamily motherly to me and always wanted to hold me change me and when I was able to eat solids she would feed me. as I grew up and got older I would bug her and always wanted to do what she did we did play a lot and she was nice to me and at times liked haveing a tag along then I got even older and she was so motherly and protective that we would fight a lot but at the end of the day one of us would crawl into the others bed and go to sleep there was really only a few years that we would fight like cats and dogs. the birth of my first nephew really got us close and more like friends I was 15 at the time. Over the years since he came a long we have really been best friends. I really think that the age gap made us closer in the end if that makes any sense. hte big difference is though that it was only the 2 of us not a 3. My sister has 2 boys and they are exactly the same years and months almost days apart as her and I are and is contemplating another one but if she is going to have another one she wants them to be closer in age she is going through the reverse of what you are going through I think as long as there is love in a home then there is nothing to worry about if you can see your family happily adding a nother blessing to your home then I say go for it