Meeting the Cousins

My sisters each have three fun, creative, well-behaved little offspring whom I completely adore. Around the third week of his life, I decided it was time to head west and introduce Lucas to all of his cousins. It was so fun to see them react to him in ways that just totally fit their little personalities.

Heather lives in Winston which is halfway to Boone, so I stopped there first. Her kids were super excited to meet the little man.

Kaitlyn (10) was interested in meeting Lucas, but probably more interested in just catching up on things. She's at a fun, awkward age right between childhood and teenagerdom, so she has lots to chat about and lots of fun questions and observations about the boy.

Eliana (6) was smitten with him. She wanted to hold him constantly and was quite impatient when anyone else had a turn. My poor sister could only hold him for about 2 mins before Eliana was ready for her turn again. It was adorable. I will gladly let her be a baby hog anytime she's around:)

Owen (4) was a little more reserved. He was fine with sitting next to Lucas, but didn't really want to actually hold him. Understandable -- that's not really a boy thing. But I am glad that Lucas will have at least ONE boy cousin to play with.

After Heather's we went up to mom's and saw Amber's kids.

Sophia (6) is Amber's oldest and was a lot like Kaitlyn -- interested in holding him, but also very interested in just talking about him and making sure I knew how to be a mom. In her sagelike wisdom, she observed that he held his head up pretty well and wondered if I'd started letting him have tummy time. I actually hadn't thought about that yet, so I was pretty glad she mentioned it.

Julia (4) was a lot like Eliana -- not really into sharing the boy, but very interested in holding him and petting him. He fell asleep in her arms which just totally thrilled her. She kept saying "when he was in your hands, his eyes were open, but then he came to my hands and now he's sleeping." When Sophia would ask to hold him, Julia would say "No, you can't, I make him go to sleep." She also kept saying "he's just so cute, isn't he?" adorable.

Isabel (19 months) definitely had the funniest reaction. She thinks that she is a six-year-old, so I think she was completely oblivious to the fact that she would probably be considered a baby as well. She started out holding him on Maw-maw's lap, but that lasted all of about 5 seconds before she decided that she was big enough to hold him herself. She can't really talk yet, but the entire weekend whenever she decided it was her time to hold Lucas, she would walk in and stop jabbering very bossily at whoever had him. Then she'd crawl on the couch, put a pillow in her lap, and hold out her arms, palms open, making little grabby motions with her hands and talking animatedly until you gave him up. It was freakin hilarious. If you didn't give him to her immediately, she would glare and get a little loud until he was in her arms. I'm glad he has a cousin close to his age to play with and am quite certain she will put him right in his place:)