Hannah and Josiah

Hannah loves her baby brother. She wants to hold him on her lap all the time and can hardly wait till she can feed him. Since Mom told her that right now he only needs to nurse, she has been content to hold him afterward. She doesn't even mind if he spits up on her. He has some projectile spit-up, and one day he really did get it all over her shirt when Hannah was standing a foot infront of him talking to Mom. She just said "oops, he spit-up! I will go get a towel" and went off to the linen closet to get a towel to clean up the mess. Mom did help her change her shirt after the mess on the floor was cleaned up though. When he fusses in his bouncy seat, she wants to pick him up to help soothe him. If he spits up, she'll run to grab a wash cloth and wipe his face off, often with too much enthusiasm for Josiah's liking.

Right after he was born, she wanted to make sure he had all his parts. He was swaddled on Laura's lap in the hospital and she asked where his feet were. So Laura uncovered one foot to show her, then Hannah uncovered the other one to make sure he had both. She likes to give him kisses on the head, and has to be reminded not to touch his face or hands. Hannah always wants to know where Josiah is, and will check on him often when he is sleeping. Her mothering instinct is coming out even more this time around, though it was pretty strong even when we had Talitha. She hates for him to be left out of anything we are doing. When his belly button was still healing, she would ask all the time if his belly button was better yet so he could come in the pool. Now when he is relaxing in the bouncy seat on the pool deck while everyone else is swimming, she will ask when he is coming in the pool. When we took him to his first check-up and he had to get a shot, she said she didn't want him to get poked, she didn't like it when he gets poked. Hannah is a sweet girl!