She's Finally Coming Around

Today Kaitlin discovered the joy of holding Alex. I was sitting on the couch getting ready to feed the baby, watching Jo Jo's Circus for the 100th time today, when Kaitlin walked up to me and announced that she wanted to hold Alexander. (When do children learn how to ask, rather than demand anyway?) I let her hold him for a few minutes. After I finished she was anxious to hold him again. We bathed him and then sat down to hold him again. She was so cute and proud of herself. She gave him kisses, stroked his head and laughed very happily. After that whenever Alex even whimpered Kaitlin would come up to me and say, "Oh no! Alexander's crying. I want to hold him!" My, doesn't she learn fast? Seriously, though, it's good to see her coming around. I try really hard not to push him on her. I know she's very apprehensive about having him here, so I don't want to force the issue. But it still does my heart good to see her begining to like him. I hate to wish his life away, but I can't wait until he becomes a little more interactive so Kaitlin can see how much fun it's going to be to have a little brother.

On a completely unrelated matter, since the camera has been out a lot more lately, I was able to capture a particularly good moring for Kaitlin's famous bedhead. She got very shy when I pointed the camera at her and ran to hide on the rug. I promise that her prone position had no effect on this morning's bedhead whatsoever. Her hair really was sticking straight up. If I ever get my act together and figure out how to use our .mac account to create photo galleries I've decided that I must have a bedhead gallery. I think that morning hair is really going to be her signature look for a while.