Mommy in Training.

Last night when I went to go tuck Chandler into bed this is what I found.......

She is such a little mommy. She loves her babies and they love her. Many nights before she goes to bed she has to nurse her baby and change its diaper so that they can go to sleep well. She makes sure that she does all the things that she has seen me do so that the baby will hopefully sleep through the night for her. The baby that she is sleeping with was my baby when I was a little girl. Until last week it was a girl baby and had painted finger nail and all. But after finding out about Coen, we got all of Creed's preemie clothes down and now it is a boy baby. Can you believe that Creed was smaller than the size of this doll?

Before I left her room last night she told me that she had decided that Coen did not need his own room because he could have her room and she would take care of him for me. She wanted to make sure that I knew that she was going to stay up late with me and help me take care of him. 

She loves being able to take care of everyone...she is definitely a giver.I keep thinking to myself what a blessing it is that she has a brother and one on the way because her life would not be completely fulfilled unless she had the opportunity to nurture and care for her brothers. She is not the typical older sibling that does not like to share their things. Rather, she makes sure the Creed has an opportunity to play with everything that she does. 

This morning when I was getting her ready for BSF I stuck a sucker in her pocket and told her that she could eat it when she got in the car with Mimi. Well Creedster saw that sucker and he wanted one too. I told Chandler just to wait until she got into the car because her brother could not have one and he would get upset watching her suck on it. She said, "Mommy it's ok, I don't mind sharing with him. I am just going to open it up and give him some licks so that he does not cry." At that moment all selfishness that you would normally expect from a 3 year old with candy was gone and she was reflecting such a Christ like attitude. I know that to some of you this does not seem like big deal, but to a mother, it is. She has such a selfless attitude that I often just stop and praise God for. What a blessing it is to have such a sweet older sister.

When you sit back and just watch your kids, they just make you smile. I often think to myself that the very best thing that a child can have is a sibling. It teaches them so many important life lessons that can only come from having to have split attention yet knowing that they are loved more than anything in the world.