The night we told Levi about the baby, I sat at my computer and wrote a description of his reaction, just so I would never forget, and I am posting it below :)
"I’m (Jessica) writing this now because I never want to forget the moment (and moments after) of us telling Levi he was going to be a BIG BROTHER! Due to our recent miscarriage, we decided when we became pregnant this time around, we would wait until we found the time to be right to let Levi in on our little secret. Little did he know, clues and evidence have been circling around him for weeks! He’s seen me nap (a lot), been too weak or tired to do much, and he’s even seen me lose my lunch (curious minds want to know). We just attribute it to “mommy isn’t feeling well”.
He even was in the ultrasound room when my pregnancy was confirmed. I tried to have him play a game on my phone to distract him, but he definitely was curious as to what was on the “TV”. My very excited mom said “Levi! That’s a baby in mommy’s belly!” And Levi said, “What?! A real baby?” And I said, “Mom, we were waiting to tell him.. Levi, that is just a picture of inside my belly and that thing there is a bean that makes my tummy hurt. I didn’t digest it well”. He bought it! So when we showed family the sonogram pictures, he says, “that’s a bean inside mommy’s belly that didn’t digest.” We hated to fib to him, but that's what he genuinely thought! Fast forward to tonight, I am 9 weeks pregnant. I was sitting in the bathroom while Levi was finishing up his shower, and Jake said, “should we tell him?”. I had no clue who he was talking about, because he was the one that was more zealous to keep it a secret for as long as possible. I asked him, “tell who?”, and he said, “Levi!”. I thought for a minute, and as scary as it was to think that if something were to happen and we had to give Levi bad news, I decided I was so ready to let him know, because I knew how excited he’d be! So we told him to hurry up and get out of the shower and get his PJs on because we had a surprise. Of course that got his attention and he put on his clothes and sat on his bed patiently. Jake brought back in the photo of the sonogram and gave it to Levi and said, “what is this?”; and Levi gave his usual response. And Jake said, “well actually it’s your little brother or sister”. Levi looked really confused, as he was trying to process that information. Then he said, “but where’s my toy?”. It took him a minute to understand he wasn’t getting that type of surprise, but quickly became excited about the baby. At first he said it was a brother, then he started telling stories of all the things he’d do with the baby, and referred to “it” as a girl. But, he’ll tell you he prayed for a brother! We told him how small the baby was, and that mommy’s stomach was getting a little bigger day by day. He was fascinated with thinking there was a baby inside, and asked all about it. He even sang “Kumbaya” to it, haha! His song choice, not ours. He asked if he would give the baby some of the books he had in his room, and we told him yes, specifically the baby books. So he picked out an Elmo book and ran to the future baby’s room and said, “Okay, I’ll give this one to the baby!” and put it in the spare room. We pulled out Levi’s old baby book with his sonogram picture in it, and compared the two babies. He was just soaking in everything we were telling him, and he had a lot to say about everything. How he was going to help with the passy, bottles, books, pushing in the swing, and the list goes on! He told us all of the things he would share with his brother or sister. His little heart was just full of joy, and it was such an amazing thing to share with him. We can’t wait to see him with our new addition!"
It's been about 4 weeks since we've told him, and almost every day he'll randomly say, "I'm going to be a big brother!". We try to teach him things about babies as much as we can, like, "you can't leave Legos around all the time, babies can choke on those," or, "you can't holler out for us in the night when the baby is here, you might wake them, you have to come get us quietly if you need us." We have a little under 6 months to prepare him, although I don't think any of us will be prepared to be a family of 4, but we are excited about the transition!
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