January 5, 2006

Hello Baby

When I arrived to pick Caleb up from Heather and Rachel’s house today Caleb was waving around a book called Hello Baby. He started begging for me to read it to him. Heather said she had read it to him a dozen times already.

Hello Baby is a book to help prepare your child for a sibling. Rachel is going to be a big sister in a few months. Now Caleb decided he needs a new baby too.

The book shows a mom having a sonogram. Caleb ran and pulled out Heather’s home Doppler and held it up to her tummy. She had let them listen to the baby’s heartbeat since Rachel wanted to show Caleb how it worked. He seemed to understand the whole baby thing really well.

I’m now trying to teach him that he can’t have everything his friends have, but so far it hasn’t worked. He really thinks Mommy needs a baby in her tummy too.