There is Going to be a New Big Brother in Town

Hi There.
We told Mason last Tuesday about the baby. He was THRILLED!!! I wish we had a digital camera so I could show you his expression. At first he thought there were 2 in my belly.

He called everyone he could think of to tell them " We have a new baby. It is in my mommy's tummy". He is very excited that it will be born during the month of his birthday. He hopes it is a girl, so there will be 2 boys and 2 girls. At first he thought it would be cool to have 3 boys and 1 girl, but he changed his mind.

He plays his bongo drums for the baby, sings to it, reads stories to it and hugs and kisses it goodnight. He is still trying to process the whole thing and at one point said: "You're kidding me!! There's a baby in there?!". The other day he started knocking on my belly because he was "knocking on the door". We talked about being gentle :)

Tonight he said that when the baby is bigger it can sleep on the mattress under his bed (he has a trundle bed system) at night, but for nap time the baby can sleep in his bed with him. Then the baby can have it's own bed and sleep on the other side of the room.

I was telling him the other day what a wonderful big brother he is going to be and how excited I was that God chose him to be the big brother of this baby and his little chest puffed out and he was grinning from ear to ear, said "Thank You." and walked away. He is so excited to be a big brother!

The little guy wouldn't sit in my lap for story time the night we told him about the baby, which was odd for him, so I told him there was room for him and the baby in my lap, but he was worried he was going to hurt the baby by sitting in my lap. I can't wait to see him with the baby. It will definitely rock his little world, but I think it will be good. He thinks it is pretty funny to see my belly growing. He found some maternity shirts and asked "Whose dresses are these for?" I told them they were shirts and he just started laughing.

I am starting to show now and started wearing maternity pants. They are a little big, but there's no way I'm squeezing into the regular pants. I can't believe how sore and uncomfortable I am already. I feel like I am 95 years old. Everything hurts and if I move too quickly, i usually pull some very painful ligament or muscle. I will be glad when Nov is here. And I am glad that children are so wonderful to make all of this so worth it.

I am starting to feel a little better at night now. and the daytimes are going better too. I am 12 weeks, so all the sickness should be going away soon. I have discovered salt water taffy at a quaint flower store in town and Mason and I make several trips a week there to stock up.

Oh yeah, the bulbs are starting to grow! Nothing is blooming, and many of the bulbs are just coming up. Hopefully they will be blooming in July! I am going to buy some plastic tulips and put them in the ground. I am getting impatient waiting for the flowers to bloom. We had golf ball sized hail today and a few of the tulips were pummeled, but I think they will be OK. I never knew growing bulbs was so difficult. Of course it doesn't help that the spot I picked to plant them had full sun all day in the fall, but doesn't get any sun until noon in the spring.

Well, I should be getting to bed. I am sure I forgot a lot of stuff, so I'll write more in a few days.

Cathy, that slide show is pretty cool!! I'll have to let my friend know about it who blogs a lot.