Minutes after we told the boys that we are going have a baby and the whole thing was sinking in, Xander flopped on me and Soren, yelled while pushing him, "No Xander, don't squish the baby." Then he ran and got me a glass of water. Then Soren asked if I was hungry. If the baby needed anything to eat. "Yeah, I am sort of hungry" I replied. Soren then got all wide eyed and said, "I know you need to eat only healthy food for the baby. What should I get?" Then Xander chimes in, "I know!" and ran off to return with a satsuma orange. That is when I started to feel there might be a couple of health police I would have to avoid if I ever got a sweet tooth craving.
Later that day the boys shared some cotton candy they got from a school function.
Xander: "Did the baby want Cotton Candy?"
Quinae giggling: "yeah"
Soren: "Mom! You shouldn't eat cotton candy! That is not good for the baby!"
Quinae: "Are you ever going to let me eat junk food while there is a baby in my tummy?"
Soren: "Well, occasionally, but just a little bit."
They have been grabbing and hugging my tummy and kissing it for the last few hours. Xander hugged and kissed my tummy and then said, "oh she is just so cute!" The boys mostly call the baby a she. Sometime they try to correct them selves and say or boy, but mostly is is a girl pronoun.
Some of my other favorite tidbits were Soren saying 5 minutes after he found out that he was so excited to have a little brother or sister because if anyone gives them trouble he would protect them. "If anyone is mean to them I will come up to those mean kids and say, hey, you be nice that is my little sister."
This is the best day ever. A day I have been day dreaming about for sometime and I can't believe it is actually here. But the day that I am really REALLY excited about is October 2nd plus or minus few weeks. I am so impatient for this baby to come! I just can't wait to hold him or her in my arms and know it is actually REAL. Please work. Please work.
