Sibling love

I haven’t had time to blog how Joshua accepted his sister Claire’s arrival.

When we arrived in my in-laws house after we were discharged from the hospital (he has to stay there while the husband and I are away since it’s near to his school), my SIL carried Claire as I am still having hard time walking – talk about learning to walk again. When she entered the house, Joshua got confused. He got more confused when I enter without carrying a baby. He even asked me “Mommy, baby natin yun?” while he pulls my top up to exposed my belly. When he realized that the baby he saw was indeed our baby, he cried, “Baby namin yan, ibalik mo na.”

At present, he loves to kiss his little sister. He even hugs her every now and then. What we avoid most of the time is his gigil moments as he has the tendency to squeeze Claire’s arms (it already happened twice). He fears of losing his sister so he doesn’t make kulit when the baby is asleep. He throws tantrums when a relative or a friend would carry his sister and joke him of taking her away from us. I have to assure him that they won’t and can’t take the baby as they won’t be able to feed them, they don’t have milk for Claire.

He would also puts his toys beside Claire and would repeatedly tell her to play as he will share his toys to her. He would tell us whenever we put small clothes on him, “Maliit na to, kay baby na.”  He always plead to allow him to carry his sister and we obliged twice.

On the side note, he refused to wean from the bottle. He wants to drink milk whenever he sees his sister feeding. He even tells his sister to stop first as they would do contest of who feeds the fastest, LOL!

I hope his love for his sister will continue and grew stronger. Ah, sibling love…