Today Nicholas lost his (umbilical cord) stump. Personally, I’m glad. The way that thing shrivels up and turns black always grosses me out. It grossed Lij out too. He saw the stump for the first time yesterday when I was changing Cole’s diaper and loudly proclaimed “Ewwwwww!”
Other than his viewing of the stump, Elijah’s impressions of Nicholas have been overwhelmingly positive. He is very protective of him. He begs to hold him and loves it when we lie Cole down on the floor. He’ll lie down right next to Cole and put his arm around him. At times like these I’ve overheard him whispering things like “Nicholas, I like you so much” and “You’re so nice, Nicholas.” He is certainly being a good big brother. To Cole, at least.
Poor Dylan, on the other hand, is definitely getting the short end of the stick. Firstly, I’m not sure that he knows what to think about Cole’s arrival. While he follows me up to Cole’s room every time I head that direction, happily joins Cole on my lap at every feeding and says goodbye and blows Cole kisses at every naptime parting, he is also throwing the most memorable tantrums to date and has been sleeping poorly at night. Then there’s the fact that Elijah dotes on Nicholas and then turns around and slugs Dylan. Certainly not an ego booster. My heart goes out to the little guy. I really feel that he wants to love Nicholas, but I also think he’s just not sure where he fits in anymore. The whole thing just makes me want to hold Dylan a little more. If only there where more hours in the day!
For the most part, Cole’s first two weeks have been really nice. Adjusting to three hasn’t been much more of a challenge than parenting a three-year-old and an eighteen-month-old. They kept me on my toes already. With Nicholas, I now have an excuse to sit down every three hours – which isn’t all that bad, although there was that incident with the broken drinking glass...
7 comments:
Such a beautiful baby! Glad the adjustment hasn't been too difficult!
Oh they are so wonderful....and having had three of my own I know there is a place for each of them but the middle one does tend to feel overlooked....I remember my oldest (that would be Nutella) saying "Stop touching the baby...you're too little!" and poor #2 would tear up and it'd break my heart.....we got her a kitty all of her own....believe it or not it helped (it helped her....me it did NOT help...it just gave me one more thing to clean up after : )
Oh, and thank you SO MUCH for the name of the picture I was desperately searching for! You will never know how much that helped me. I can't believe you even took time to care about it with all you've got on your plate but I'm so grateful! I hope I can do something for you someday.....
Those pictures are adorable! Any chance of getting an email copy of them? Ones that I can print out? Thanks! I've been showing my students pictures of all my nephews and they are amazed. What?!? Have they never seen a baby before?
He's soooo cute! And our cord disappearance is a mystery. One day he woke up and it was gone. I certainly hope it didn't somehow get eaten. :-)
Dylan must need lots of hugs so he doesn't get lost in the middle.
My middle guy struggles too. It's a tough palce to be.
He's super duper cute. :)
Just checking in to see if there are any new Nicolas updates. The best thing I can say about Bode is he's still sleeping a long stretch at night--from around 9:30 p.m. to 3:30 a.m. Only problem is that when I finally get him back to sleep, I can't sleep!!!
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