Meeting the Circus Family

Our son was born at 10:27pm.  Unfortunately, because he was born so late, his brother and sisters didn’t get to meet him until the next morning.  We loved the first night with him but it felt like the birthing process was somehow incomplete until we were all together. 

When the moment finally came Scott brought them up and they eagerly ran to the bed to meet him. 

When I told them his name, my son’s face light up as it registered that he got the baby brother he was longing for.  He said to me “Mom, I am so excited that he is a boy!”  Me too, I replied.  “But Mom, you said you would be excited about a boy or a girl.”  “Right,” I said, “and I would have been… you said the same thing.”  “Yea,” he answered, “But I REEAALLLLY wanted a boy!” Doesn’t that look on his face say it all? 

He wasn’t the only one instantly smitten though.  The girls were truly taken by their baby brother.  They wanted to touch his toes, and count his fingers.   

She truly adores her brother and is pretty much by his side every single moment of the day. 

And the baby of the family, is no longer the baby… she cherishes her role as big sister.  Her face lights up with joy every time she gets to hold him. 

As the kids left the hospital a few hours later, I couldn’t help but smile as my heart was very full.  Our family is now complete.  And I couldn’t be happier.  Funny how things changed in a mere matter of hours.

Here we are as we dropped the kids off on our way to the hospital.  Doesn't this picture already strike you as so incomplete?

Our first complete family picture, one I will forever cherish and treasure, wasn’t taken until the next morning.

  - MEET THE CIRCUS -