Big Sister

Alanna is going to be a big sister come next January. She's super excited now, but wasn't originally when we first started discussing it.

In January we had talked about how our family would change if we had another child and asked how she felt about becomming a big sister. She determined that she wasn't sold on it and that "I don't want you and Daddy doing ANYTHING to make me a little baby brother or sister."

After further conversations, she came around to the idea that it might be ok and that we should leave it up to God to decide if we were going to have a new baby in the family.

Now that we're definitely adding a new person to the household, we've tried to make Alanna feel as special as possible about being a Big Sister. We know that no matter how hard we try, there will be some resentment/jealousy once the baby comes and figure if we can build her up prior to that maybe it won't be so bad.

I found an adorable custom made shirt for her from togs4sprogs.com and she was able to wear it to school to share "HER" news with all of her friends. Apparently she was so excited that she yelled it out first thing when she got into her classroom.



I also ordered her a book from Amazon called "There's a Brand New Baby in the House and I'm the Big Sister". We received it the other day and she's really excited to fill it out and is already planning her answers for each of the pages. I told her it was something we'd wait to do together after the baby is born. It's actually a super cute journal book about the Big Sister when the baby is born. It talks about how old Alanna is and how big she is and then has pages for her hand print and the baby's hand print. Overall, a good purchase.

I'm trying to think of things we can do over the next months. Maybe one a month to keep her excited. I have an idea for a little room plaque, a bracelet she and I can make (just need to call the bead store and see if they have Big Sister charms or I'll need to order one), and a Big Sister tool belt. Any other ideas?