Madeline refers to John David as "my baby" and she becomes very, very concerned when he cries. Whenever she sees him, she calls out, "Kiss, peash!" until you bend low enough for her to kiss his little head. When she's permitted to hold the baby (with lots of supervision), Madeline is in heaven!
Help is wonderful! Our church family has been great about bringing us meals to ease our transition (we're eating like kings!), and Nan and Grandpa have come to lend a hand the days Jim's at class.
Kathleen is also quite enamored of her baby brother, although she only calls him Indy. If anyone is so foolish as to call him something else (you know, like John David), she says quite forcefully, "His name is Indy! You were joking." Kathleen sings for her brother when he cries, and she speaks quite sweetly to him about how we'll take care of him, sounding surprisingly like her Mama. When Kathleen's permitted to hold her brother, she beams with pride.
Our little boy is destined for basketball. His aunt and uncle gave him his first basketball, and he's taken to it quite well. We've also witnessed John David craning his little neck to get a better view of the NBA finals on television...
It's definitely a bit crazy, but we love our three-ring circus!
4 comments:
So glad things are going so well and the big sisters are so helpful :-)
Thats great that your girls are so sweet with their baby brother! Now Indy just needs a brother to team up with against the girls....Hehehe.
Well, we are makig the big move to Cali in two weeks! We'll take leave for most of the month of June. Maybe I should right about this on my own blog, but whatever. Anyway, I'll call or email you to see if we can come by and visit sometime! The girls could all play and you and I could nurse together, what fun! That is, of course, if you are up for company yet! Don't hesitate to say "No visitors yet, please!" if you don't want us to come. It won't hurt our feelings. But of course we'd love to see all the Golby's including the newest one. Okay, enough rambling...See ya!
What a beautiful post. Thank you for sharing. It's so great that you have so much help and that the girls love him so much.
This is a great story. How adorable!
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