After I got Hayley off to school, I set about doing a few necessities, such as tidying up and getting a bit of work out of the way because I knew that once my friend dropped her baby off, I wasn’t going to be doing anything other than taking care of him and of Breanna.

I was really looking forward to hanging out with a wee baby again but the one thing I was worried about was that Breanna would be jealous. She loved him well enough the other times she saw him but I wondered if she would start freaking out when she saw me holding a baby in her home instead of holding her. She’s two, after all, and very tempermental (you should see the hilarious picture I have of her from this evening when she had a little tantrum – how DARE I say she can’t have another cookie?! – and then threw herself down on the floor in a very dramatic “woe is me” pose), so I was almost expecting the worst after she realized it was just the three of us.

Much to my surprise, she was not only fine, she had a great time. In fact, I was right that she was jealous but not because I wasn’t holding her. She was jealous because she wanted to hold the baby herself. She kept putting her arms out to him and imploring, “I hold! I hold him! Me! My turn!” I got her to sit beside me on the couch and I helped her hold him (I still mostly had him but he was halfway on her lap too) and she postively beamed as she sat there, so pleased with herself for holding a baby.

She hugged him and kissed his forehead, she helped me rub his back when he needed to burp and she patted his arm when he was crying because I was preparing his bottle. At one point I put him in his car seat while he dozed so I could get her some paper to draw on and she sat beside us on the floor and tried to give him her Elmo to hold (“Baby! Here Elmo!”).

It was overwhelmingly cute. I’m sure if he was a permanent fixture she would quickly get over being enthralled but she sure did love him today. Her birthday party is on this coming Saturday and I know she’s going to be so excited when she sees him again in just a few more days.

(NO, she is NOT getting a baby brother OR sister, so hush!)