Straight From the Bottle

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• Just the Two of Us... For Now

  Hal and I decided several months ago to pull Archer out of school for a month before the baby is born (due early October). I really wanted to spend some time together, just Archer and me, before our family expansion. Expecting a second baby is a very different experience than expecting a first. With the second pregnancy, you expect a sibling as well as a new baby, and as much as I'm prepared with layette and bottles and the various accessories and baby needs, I must also prepare for my son's new role as brother.   I've been doing what I can to prepare Archer for what will be a change in our dynamic. It won't just be about him anymore and I'm very sensitive to that. I can still remember the feeling I had when my parents brought my little brother home from the hospital. I was a little younger than Archer when he was born and I can STILL remember the feeling seeing him for the first time. Suddenly, I wasn't the baby anymore. I was crestfallen.   I'm preparing for Archer to have similar feelings, although when asked about the baby he smiles and hugs my belly, calling his sister by name, kissing her/me softly. Even still, I know that there will be days when Archer will be jealous, bitter and angry. Because that's what happens when a new roommate moves in and a family of three becomes four...   Read More... Posted Aug 02 2008, 01:56 PM by GirlsGoneChild with | with 29 comment(s) Filed under: baby #2, brotherhood, seven months pregnant

• Bribing for Brotherhood

  "Hey, Archer. Guess what! There's a baby in Mommy's body!"   "Baby?"   "Yeah. Right in here. In my belly, see?   "No baby, Mommy."    "Yes, baby. Just really small baby right now. Grape-sized."   Archer flashes me his "what the hell kind of drugs you on, woman" face   "Do you want to have a baby?"   "No!"   "You don't want to have a little brother to wrestle with?"   "No!"   "Do you want a little sister to play with in the park? You can frolick and--"   "No!"   "You don't want a little friend to build forts with and draw on walls with and--?"   "NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"   "You know what? When you have a baby you get ice-cream. All you can eat ice-cream. And cookies."   "Ay-Keem? Yay! Ay-keem!!!! Yay!"   "So do you want to have a baby and cookies?"   "Yays!"   "Do you want to have a little brother to wrestle with and ice cream? "   "Yays! Ak-keem baby!"   "What about a baby sister to push on the swings and cookies?"   "YAYS! YAYS! OKAAAAAAAY. Coo-KIE COO-KIE. YAYS, MOMMY! YAYS! Wheredigo-Ak-keem-COOkie?"   So I'm really happy to report to all who've enquired that Archer can't wait to be a brother. And ice-cream. And cookies. And... yeah.    ***  Posted Feb 25 2008, 05:19 PM by GirlsGoneChild with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: baby #2, ice cream, brotherhood