Lucy Meets Her Brothers

After 9 long months of waiting it was finally time for Andrew and Zane to meet their new baby sister. Andrew has been driving me completely insane since the beginning of January because he knew January was the month his "new baby" was coming and he just had a hard time understanding why I couldn't give him a date for her to be born.

The morning of the 17th we called our house right after Lucy made her appearance to let Grandma Alice know that she had another little granddaughter. The boys were still asleep so we let Alice tell them about Lucy when they woke up. Andrew woke up, took one look at his grandma and asked "What are you doing here?" when he heard that he had a new baby sister he promptly burst into tears because he thought that he was not going to have a sleepover at grandma and grandpa's house as promised. When he found out that the sleepover was still on he got down to being excited about a new sister.

Andrew came racing into the room really excited to see Lucy. He wanted to hold her right away and had a whole lot of fun kissing her and snuggling her.

Zane, on the other hand, was a totally different story. I think the concept of a new baby sister was a bit abstract for his 2 year old mind to wrap around and he did not want to even look at her. I think he was happy to see me but he wanted NOTHING to do with Lucy at first. He actually took one look at the little pink blanket and sat on the floor, stuck his thumb in him mouth and would not budge. I took this picture of him but he was not happy with me for taking it.

After Zane sat and watched Andrew holding Lucy for a while he finally warmed up and agreed to hold her. It only lasted for 20 seconds or so but we figured we were making progress. Zane can say Lucy and baby sister and he calls her cute all the time so I think we are making good strides. He was not too excited about me nursing her this morning but we worked around that and I think that in time all will be just fine.

Finally, finally we made it home (checkout took FOREVER!!!) and picked up our boys from grandma and grandpa's. Andrew was once again dying to hold Lucy as soon as we walked in the door. Somehow I think that this little one will not be lacking for attention anytime soon!

Some of you may be wondering where Crystal was in all this drama. Well, Lucy had really poor timing because Crystal had to leave for a trip to Hawaii Thursday morning at 6:40. So she managed to miss ever getting to see her at the hospital! I am sure that she will be super excited to see her once she gets back Tuesday night and then there will be yet another person for Lucy to get spoiled by!