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Meeting Baby Sister

Evangeline has transitioned much better than I could have imagined. I was so afraid that she wouldn't like having a little baby around. For the past 3 years, we showered her with so much attention. At first, it was kinda tough. The night before we went to the hospital, she was crying and angry bc she wanted us to put her in her crib to say goodnight. Rather, we prayed as we usually do, and then handed her over to grandma bc she was going to sleep over. The next morning we would be leaving at 6 am for our c-section. It was easier for us to make sure she was taken care of the evening prior. Later we found out that entire weekend Evangeline was sleep-deprived bc she refused to nap! Not only was she ridiculously grumpy, she was bossing around everyone, AND she only ate junk food. Ayyyy. My brother Billy said that he would show her pics of Elianna and say "Are you excited to meet your baby sister?" And she would yell, "NO!" To say I was concerned about their first meeting is an understatement!

Kevin and I did a lot of research about how big siblings best reacted to a new baby. We decided before the baby was born that we wouldn't force Elianna into Evangeline's face, and that when she was reunited with us for the first time we wouldn't draw a lot of attention to the baby. The logic is that at a young age, if they come into the room and everyone is ooh-ing and ahh-ing at a baby and not them, it may make them jealous bc mommy and daddy are now distracted by someone else...the entire universe revolved around them prior to the baby. Does this make sense? It does. But will it really have that huge effect on the long run? Probably not! Anyways, we were walking on egg shells bc we knew Evangeline had been waiting for us for the last 2 days!

Evangeline came in the room, and we played with her and were talking about how much we missed her. She was hesitant to greet us bc she was still hurt we left her at grandma's house for two days! But she eventually sat with Kevin on the other bed in our hospital room, and they played with an Amelia Badelia sticker book. Finally, after TWO hours, and little glances here and there, she mentioned and pointed that there was a baby in the room. "Where's Elianna?" We asked her. And she would point, and we would praise her and squeal with excitement! Of course that made her happy and excited and it just went like that for a while until she was ready to go see the baby. I had this entire event planned out in my head that we could film it... it would be Instagram worthy and beautiful and bring people to tears! I told my mom to dress Evangeline up in a cute outfit too. Of course that all blew up in my face bc my mom let Evangeline choose her outfit so it was completely mismatched! The video ended up being silly and awkward and it was so perfectly us (I wanted to upload it here but apparently it's too long..boo!) Evangeline ended up warming up and was pretty sweet and hammin' it up with me filming her. She said she wanted to kiss Elianna but last minute decided against it, and just cuddled up next to daddy, which I was fine with. I was just happy that she acknowledged and was excited to meet her little sister!


The following week, Evangeline kept laughing at and kissing Elianna. Honestly I'm not sure what Evangeline found so funny but as long as she was happy, I was happy too! I'm so glad Evangeline's so naturally gentle and dainty. It made this entire process a whole lot easier! 






My sweet girls. 

Can't wait for them to grow up to be best friends!



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