My girls have been waiting with bated breath for the arrival of the new baby over at www.stronglovegrowshere.com. We have known the family for about 2 years now. And became fast friends. It works that way sometimes when you are expats. You know you only have a short time that you will be neighbors (at least in this city) so you speed up the getting to know you. Wasn't difficult in this case, since we both moved to Santiago within weeks of each other, work for the same company, have children in the same age range and funny enough, they had just moved from my hometown. We almost had to like each other, didn't we?
When A got pregnant, we were all very excited for them. But I think my girls took the cake. Especially in the past couple of weeks. They were full of questions about the baby, how and when it would be born, and kept touching A's belly (sorry about that A)! They just couldn't contain themselves. And I don't blame them. It was a first for them. Because even though they have a lot of friends, none of my friends were ever pregnant while they were old enough to be even remotely curious. This whole thing was new to them and pretty darn exciting. And totally frustrating too. They were so upset that no one could tell them the sex of the baby and repeatedly asked anyone who would listen, "Do you know now if it is a boy or a girl?". So, when I told them that A and G would be having the baby on Tuesday night and they would finally be able to know if it was a baby girl or a baby boy they jumped. Literally, they jumped for joy. They were both hoping for a girl...
And they got their wish (thanks A and G for having that work out for us). And they were super happy to know that they were going to finally going to get to meet the new baby. They were so excited Friday morning when they picked out their outfits (yep, totally chosen by my 5 year old, and then copied by her 3 1/2 year old sister...yep, they have better style sense than I do...). They hounded me all morning about going to take my shower so we could go. I think I delayed it longer than I had to because it was just so cute seeing them so excited.
We headed out to get them some fresh flowers. Those were for A. The dark chocolate was for G. I made them sit for this picture...
They were not so happy that I made them wait even longer. You can tell by the forced smiles they gave me with impatient eyes, pleading with me to hurry up. They just couldn't take it any more. I took pity on them and we headed down the hall and walked in to this...
They wouldn't get any closer. They would walk away, then walk back. Sneak up on the baby like she was going to suddenly move and yell boo. They were shy and a bit in awe of how tiny she was. Even though both of them were that size once. Stinkerbell was much smaller even.
And then they got a bit braver and wanted to hold the baby. So we made MadHatter practice with a doll...
And Stinkerbell was just checking out to see what she could get away with now...
All while an unsuspecting baby slept.
And finally we let the Nana take the baby and hold her. Close enough so the girls could touch and just get used to her outside of the bassinet. They were super gentle (that takes a lot of concentration for Stinkerbell) and really sweet. Baby got a bunch of kisses that day from her newest friends.
Finally, we asked if MadHatter would like to hold her. She was beside herself but a bit scared. When she saw this...
she lost all fear. She figured if she could handle the one, she could handle the other. And she did. Perfectly.
They had so much fun. They really haven't stopped talking about the new baby. And I still get a million random questions out of the blue about her. But that's ok. As long as one of those questions isn't "Can we have one too?" Because as much fun as it is to have a newborn around, B and I are perfectly content sharing other people's.
Congratulations A and G and Big Sister L. Baby E is absolutely perfect and heaven sent. Thanks for letting my girls and I share the excitement.
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