My husband is in the
Military and was deployed when my son was very young. My son was born in August, and Matt left when
Noah was just 3.5 months old. (On my
birthday I might add.)
We had decided to
wait to have more children until Noah was older. For several reasons, one being that Matt was
missing most of Noah's first year and would need time to reintegrate. Another being that we didn't want children
too close together.
Well, if you have
read any of my previous posts, you know that this did not work out! God's plans are always better than ours
though!
Matt ended up
returning days before Noah's first birthday and apparently within a couple of
weeks we were pregnant again.
Being that Noah was
so young, we were not sure how to explain the whole pregnancy or the baby that
would eventually be coming home. We
talked often about baby sissy (once we found out it was girl) and how Noah was
going to have a sister soon.
He would smile and
laugh and pat my belly. Of course, we
had no idea if it was actually clicking.
Well, the day came
and Jordyn was born. Noah was staying
with my dad during the labor and delivery process. He came to the hospital shortly after Jordyn
had been born.
Now, this is what
blows me away. He walked into the
hospital room and saw Jordyn, walked up to her and said 'Sissy'. He KNEW immediately.
How? I still don't understand. He was just over 1.5 years old when Jordyn
was born. But he knew, from the first
moment that she was his family! Is this an intuition that he had... 'Kidtuition'? What do you think? Has anyone else experienced this?
Gabriel did that. He didn't want to hold him or anything in the beginning, but he called Eli by name and never again called my stomach by his name or "baby". It was back to being a belly like everyone else. Gabriel was a month younger than Noah too. I think it is God's way of saving our sanity. Overall Gabriel has been great with Eli. I never thought it would go so well.
ReplyDeleteI was so excited to see that connection immediately. I really thought it would take some time! How awesome that these little ones were created with such an innate sense of understanding!
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