Big Brother

Before Addison was born I was really nervous about how Jaxon would adjust to having a sibling. I'm sure every mother feels like that. But I couldn't be happier with how Jaxon has adjusted. He is such a good big brother! I was worried about what he would do while I nursed her and I am SOOOO lucky that he has such an AMAZING imagination because we play pretend baseball, driving in the car, dinosaurs, basically he can pretend anything and I am so grateful for that because it allows me to sit and nurse her, and play and have fun with him at the same time. Whenever she cries he stops what he is doing to go check on her. He usually gets to her room faster than me and I hear him saying, "it's ok baby" and he strokes her hair. He will go in her room over and over again - every time she whimpers or cries until she is asleep. If he hasn't seen her in a while (when she is napping or when he wakes up in the morning) he asks where the baby is and wants to make sure she is ok. He loves to push her in her swing. He loves holding her and when I try and take her away he says, "no, its mine" haha. Today at church he grabbed his friend Carter by the hand and pulled him over to us and said, "look, it's baby Addison" and he was so proud. Tonight when we put Jaxon to bed - he asked to hold Addison for a second so I put her down by him and he held her and then kissed her forehead. It just melted my heart!

There is a "game" that Jaxon likes to play with Addison that Jaxon made up called FUNNY FACES. This started when Addison was a week old and I was holding her and Jaxon was sitting next to me and Addison was pulling some funny looking faces and Jaxon was laughing so hard. So now it has become a game that he likes to play with her. He jumps up on the couch when I'm holding her and says "funny faces!!!" so we wait until she does something funny (which Jaxon thinks everything she does is funny) and then he will make a funny face and then I will and we do this over and over again and laugh and laugh.

I just LOVE having 2 kids. I was really nervous about it and how our family would adjust but everything has gone so smoothly and we love having Addison in our family. I never thought it would be possible to love someone as much as I love Jaxon but I do and our family is closer than we have ever been.