Last night Noah asked me if he could hold his baby brother HeHe. It was so sweet and totally melted my heart! :) I told him that after the baby is done growing inside my tummy and he is ready to come out and does come out, that yes, he can hold his baby brother.
I know things might change once the baby is really here and reality sets in, but I love how involved Noah already wants to be about anything having to do with the baby. I love that he already shows his love for his baby brother (hugging and kissing my belly, wanting to be involved, asking about the baby, talking about the baby). I hope that his behavior about it all now is a good indicator of how things are going to go after baby boy is here!
Another cute thing he wanted to do last night for his "baby brudder" is make him a motorcycle shirt HaHa. I was trying out another freezer paper stencil on a shirt for Noah (just a mongram "N"), and a week or so previously we looked at some clipart of motorcycles, because that is what Noah said he wanted for himself when I was first looking at some designs. When he noticed that I was going to paint on a shirt last night he asked me, "can we make a motorcycle one for my baby brudder?" I told him I was making a shirt for him, but even so he had to look at the motorcycle pictures on the computer to pick one for his little brother's shirt HaHa (he wanted to do a cartoon Santa riding on a motorcycle for him). It was really cute! He was not at all concerned about making a motorcyle shirt (or any shirt for that matter) for himself.
When it has come to buying new things for the baby, making things for the baby, or doing things to prepare around the house for the baby, he has never shown any sort of seflishness or jealousy, never acted like "what about me? what do I get?", and he is just so excited to be a part of it and help out. After first coming home with some newly-bought clothes, he loved to look at them and then hang them up wherever he felt was the best place HeHe. And last night, like I already mentioned, when I was starting to make a shirt, he was not concerned about a shirt for himself, but wanted to make one for his little brother.
He wants to help us paint the baby's room (as he has seen the sample on the wall of the color we're thinking of), and he has asked quite a bit about when we are going to put the baby's bed together/up, because he wants to help HeHe. And part of those things might just be because he is a boy and is interested in very hands on things, and what 3-year-old wouldn't love to paint a wall, but it's just interesting/sweet to me that he also points out that it's for his baby brother, and is excited to do those things for his baby brother...that he's not just asking to do them for the sake of doing them.
Noah is just so sweet! I really hope that all this excitement now will help him have an easy transition once baby brother is here! I know that even if things are not super smooth at first, and I wouldn't blame him if he had a hard time adjusting (a new baby is a huge adjustment for anyone, but especially a young child), I know that Noah is going to be a wonderful big brother! :)
I feel so blessed to have Noah as my son! Love him to the moon and back! :)
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Getting Gage involved as soon as Charli was here really helped ease the transition for all of us. He was responsible for fetching her a diaper, or throwing diapers away, or bringing her a blanket to help warm her up. He felt so involved with Charli that he never had time to feel jealous. And we made it a point to have at least one day a week where both June and I took him somewhere just one on one to remind him that he is still special.
I can't believe you are getting so close. I hope you are feeling as good as possible. I love to read all of your posts. <3 <3
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