Last night Garrett and I had a discussion about the baby. He saw a picture of a baby on the computer so he started asking questions. I explained that the baby would be too small to sit in the high chair at first, that he would take a bottle, sleep, and cry a lot at first. And that sometimes we would hold him, and Garrett was excited about the possibility of holding him, and sometimes he would lay on the floor (on the activity mat) and sometimes he would sit in the swing. Of course Garrett hasn't seen a baby swing in a long time, so he asked if the baby could slide too. I tried to explain the concept of a baby swing, but he'll see it soon enough.
I tried to really focus on the fact that the baby would cry a lot. I don't want him to be disturbed by that. He's just not been around babies enough to know that's very normal. I also explained that the baby would have a paci. Garrett is still very obsessed with pacifiers. He has turned a couple of toys into one and puts them in his mouth. He also points out pacifiers anytime he sees one. I really hope that we won't have to constantly be taking the baby's paci away from Garrett. I'm sure once he sees that it helps to stop the baby from crying he'll be happy to keep it in his mouth.
I think, as a whole, Garrett will do really well with the transition. I told Keith that my opinion is Garrett will be more jealous of Keith holding and doing things for the baby than he will with me holding and doing things for the baby. So Keith is prepared to take it slowly when it comes to the baby, if that seems to be the case. While I obviously want the baby to know and love his dad, Garrett is the one who will remember this transition time, but the baby won't.
I'm starting to think about possible gifts that the baby could "give" to his big brother. I think it would be fun for Garrett if he got a neat toy from his baby brother when he comes to see him in the hospital. I'm not sure what we'll get him yet, but if any of you have any ideas, feel free to let me know. Right now I'm considering either a) a toy guitar because he's been wanting one, b) a new Woody doll from Toy Story because his old one is broken, and along with Woody, I would try to find Jessi too, c) a fishing pole-which couldn't be used right away which may not make it as fun of a toy as it might otherwise be, or d) a t-ball set, he's really into baseball right now (or batball, as he calls it).
I'm sorry all of my recent posts have mostly been baby related. I'm trying to come up with something else to blog about, but right now that's basically the focus of what's going on around here.
Congratulations to my cousin Andrea! She emailed us yesterday to announce she's also having a baby boy in early July. Our next family reunion is going to have a group of cute babies to pass around, assuming we have another one before these kids start school. They may not want to be passed around when they're 6 years old.
2 comments:
I totally understand your dilemma with baby names. When I found out I was having a girl with Jenna, for some reason it was so important to me for her to have five letters in her first name like Kayla. As soon as she was born, I told Mike I wanted to spell her middle name RAYE so it would have 4 letters it in like DAWN Kayla's middle name. WE veered from that rule with Landon because we wanted Michael as the middle name. Things like that are SO important!!! (I wanted to name Landon Julia if he'd been a girl and call "her" "Lia" for short, so that would've still been with the five letter first name rule!!)
I like your new profile!
Anyway, I like the 2/3-1 rule. It it's a long first name the middle name needs to be short aka Madelyn Reese. Or vise versa. Short first name long middle name. That's just my opinion.
Garret is going to seem bigger to you all the time. He will be a good big helper. I thik the toy from his baby brother is a cute idea. I vote for the tee ball set since that's a cute big boy toy.
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