Baby Issues

Having an 18 month old in the house when you are about to have a newborn is interesting. You can't explain to them that there is a baby coming, or that their lives are going to change drastically, or that they will have to share their toys, etc.

We have been working really hard with Alden about "There is a baby in Momma's Belly." "Can you say Hi to baby Collyn" "Where is Collyn?"

It was working until he asked Lyndon to see the baby is his belly. "Dada Baby??" and lifted his shirt. So, now every day he goes around to all of us, lifts our shirts (Including himself) and tells us that there is a baby in there.

We got him a baby doll to play with. I've shown him how to feed the baby with a bottle and how to hold the baby and we are gentle with baby... He loves the doll. He will find it every once in a while and "practice". Still, I don't think it is clicking.

We look online at my friends who have had babies recently. He points out the babies.

With all of these great things happening.... This is happening...

He wants in the bassinet, wrapped like a newborn and says to me... "I the baby."

I let him do it. I figure it is a phase and he will get over it when the baby comes. We have been trying to get him to do "Big Boy" things, like help daddy mow the lawn (Which means he plays in the yard while daddy mows) and going to do big boy things like getting a milkshake with Momma and daddy.

We will see how things go when Collyn arrives.