The past 10 months!

It is just shy of 10 months since the last time we blogged.  SO much has happened...I'll do my best to catch you up.

9 months ago, actually, exactly 9 months ago today, my baby sis was born, so my Mom has been a little busy! 

I love my baby sis, she's so cute and I'm glad that she came to live with us. Want to hear the story about the day she was born?...

My Mom had been sick for a few weeks but on this very cold November morning she woke up feeling really good. We decided to go to Coffee Coffee for a breakfast date. We had been trying to have plenty of dates together before my sister came and I wanted oatmeal!  So we went, we had our favorite oatmeal and Mom had her favorite coffee and then said we may as well go into town and finish up a little Christmas shopping before Baby Sis arrived.  

We went to Two Sisters my mom discovered I had lost my shoe. In fact, I took it off at Coffee Coffee- I just didn’t tell her! Anyway, she had to carry me into the store and the ladies who work there couldn’t believe she was carrying me. They kept going on and on about it and I was thinking, don’t be silly- that’s why my Mimi made these side carriers- anyway, I like it when my mom carries me and I had just started walking 2 weeks earlier. 

When we got home my Mimi came.  I was excited to play with her and Mimi told Mommy to rest up because she thought my sister would come tonight! My mom isn’t great at resting, but she took a bath and then made me some lunch and while she was making my lunch she kept saying “whoooo whoooo” and she kept stopping to take little rests. It was silly. 

Anyway then Mimi took me up for a nap and I am told that that is when the excitement started.

My Dad got home at 4 and my mom was carrying on. Then my Grandma came over and my Dad called to have an ambulance come get Mom to take her to have Baby Sis. My Dad wasn’t convinced Mom was going to have the baby so quick because I took so long to arrive. He was wrong.

My Baby Sis, Ani Evelyn arrived at 6:29pm in the back of an ambulance. Mimi was with my mom and a mand named Mike from the Abingdon Fire Department caught her. She was BIG. 9 pounds 14 ounces and 20 and a half perfect inches. 








I loved her even before I met her...this was me waiting patiently to meet her. I had fun those 2 days with all my people who came to play while my Mommy and Daddy were at the hospital with my sister.

The next 9 months have gone by in a blur.

Ani came home and she was just the best gift I ever got.

I really liked holding her!

And I was excited she was able to be home in time for Thanksgiving!

Can you tell I like her?

Just like that she was 2 months old...

Then 3 months...

Of pure cuteness!

 I plan to teach her a lot of things...

When she was 4 months old she really started doing a lot of fun stuff, like laughing at me...and making me laugh!

And then a month later she had her first food...she seemed to like it...but now, 4 months later, still won't eat much of anything. Silly girl!

Maddie loves Ani too. 

Ani started feeling a little better and crying a little less during the day when she was 6 months old. We got to do more fun stuff together!

 She started crying less and laughing more. I liked that!

Everything is a little better because I have a sister by my side!

Even bath time is more fun!

So that is sort of what the past 10 months have looked like. We waited for Baby Sister and then she came and life was different, in such a good way. Some mornings are a little busier and sometimes I have to work really hard at sharing, or giving Baby Sis things to play with that aren't too small. And my Mom didn't sleep a lot for the first 7 months so that wasn't that much fun for her I guess, but over all I'd say I am loving life with my baby sis. 

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