It sure is a good thing that my friend Katie is such a laid back parent!! This picture is over a week old, but it’s a good example for what happened at my birthday dinner this week.
Katie, Jeff and Baby Jacks come into the house. Isabell walks up and says: “turn baby” while patting herself on the chest. She runs over to the couch, climbs up, and is handed the baby. She proceeds to sit there for a good 10 minutes with him in her lap, patting his shoulder with her arm that is under his neck, tickling his tummy, giving him big open mouthed kisses, rubbing noses, and generally staring into his eyes (while he smiles and stares back).
Isabell wanted nothing to do with me (Happy birthday mommy! Have a break and some grownup conversation!!!) and followed Katie around with the baby. She covered him up with a blanket when he was laying on the floor, she gave him toys, played peek a boo while he was nursing, and told us all to “ssshhhhh” when he fell asleep. She was, in general, a perfect big sister. She didn’t mind when other people held Jacks, as long as she could be in their lap too. And if she couldn’t be…..well….lets just say that Isabell has been practicing for being two.
But it DID give us some hope that she’ll be good with Baby Dot when she arrives. Hopefully the novelty of having baby around all the time won’t wear off TOO quickly.
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