Babies

Aidan has been very interested in his baby pictures these past few days. I showed them to him hoping it would help with the hospital trip and adjusting to a new baby brother. He has carried the photo album around most of the week. It goes from the house to the car and back again with us. He has asked every question imaginable...what the stuff was on him (from the seconds old pictures), what was the thing biting on him (the clamp on his umbilical cord), why was he crying, who various people were (nurses) and he has made some observations ... he was crying in the pictures when he was alone but when he was wrapped and in my arms he was happy because he was not crying, his great granddaddy looks very old (yes, he was Pop's daddy so he was very old), and that great granddaddy and granddaddy are in Heaven watching over him. Kids know so much more than we give them credit for. This morning in Aidan's Sunday school class a 4 year old (who happens to have a new baby sister) explained to Derek and myself how her mommy's tummy was unzipped for the baby to come out(she had a c-section) and how her mommy feeds the baby with milk she makes and where that milk comes from. I can only imagine how Aidan will ever explain that to anyone that will listen. Last week, while I was in my doctor's waiting room, I was watching the Rachel Ray show. She had a panel of child and relationship experts so the audience could ask questions. One mother said her 4 year old daughter had begun to hold a baby doll to her chest and pretend to feed it like her mother fed the new baby sister, and she wanted to know was that normal. The expert said it was and she commended the mother on taking the breastfeeding option with her children and such. No thank you, the second Aidan pretends to breastfeed a doll, the baby will start on formula. However, that would make for a great story when Aidan is a teenager and has friends over.