'I got TWO BABIES!'

During my summer break I always watch  'Adoption Story' to see other families during their adoption journey. There was one episode that highlighted an adoption through the agency that helped us with Nicholas. I've watch the show for some years, remembering our adoptions and what blessings the kids have brought us.

The channel has discontinued the show so now I mainly watch 'A Baby Story' on TLC to see how others felt when they felt when pregnant/delivering. I'll never experience pregnancy or childbirth....something that I miss not being able to experience as a woman.

Today, while watching 'A Baby Story' a couple delivered their second child and brought him home to meet his older brother. I almost immediately went into memory mode and recalled the day we brought the twins home.....

Planning to adopt again, we had to prepare Nicholas for siblings. He had had us to himself for almost 4 years, so, not knowing what age, sex or emotional/physical need of the child we would be blessed with, he had to be ready to share. So each day one of us would ask, "Nicholas, do you want a brother or sister?" He would think for a moment, then smile and say, "A brother!" Well, this went on for a month.... Then, one day, when I asked on the way home from daycare, "Nicholas, do you want a brother or sister?" he replied, "A sister!" I was so caught off guard that I had to stop! "Really?? Why, honey?" He grinned and said, "You can dress her up pretty and I can feed her!" How cute!

So the daily questioning continued, always getting the same response and reason. Then one day....
"Nicholas, do you want a brother or a sister?"
"I want both!"
<I had to stop the car!>
"BOTH????! Son, why both????"
" A'cause then you'll have one and Daddy'll have one. And when Daddy is at work I can feed one."
"Well, son, it doesn't quite work that way....."
"But I want both! Why can't I have both?"
"Because it just doesn't, sweetie...."
"Well, I still want both."

Well, we were contacted about the placement of the twins (I have posted about my dream....) we decided not to say anything to Nicholas until they came home. Even though he was with me during all the afternoon shopping, prepping, washing, drying, folding, putting together and such, he seemed oblivious to what all the hullabaloo was about. Bless his heart!

The morning of the pick up, we took Nicholas to day care as usual; we wanted one more normal day for him. We drove to the hospital, spent an exhaustingly long morning and afternoon in the NICU and finally left close to 3 p.m., with a car seat and car bed in the back of our little Blazer...BARELY enough room between the two for my first baby boy (thankfully he was in a booster because of his SIZE!) :) We took the twins home, fed and changed them, and got them settled in the crib....Nicholas' old crib in his old room.

During the ride home....
"Nicholas, do you want a little brother or a little sister?" (I had never included that adjective before; although I was determined to keep him the oldest as his adoption-right, with adoption that's never a certainty.....until now)
"I want both, Mommy. One for me and Daddy and one for you."
"Ok. Well, I have a surprise for you when we get home."
"You DO!? Is it ice cream?" (Bless his heart)
"No. Something better."

When we got home, I told him to go upstairs and look in his old room for his surprise. He crept up the stairs, looking around, expecting I guess to see 'something somewhere'. He walked into the room, peeked into the crib, and with sheer delight in his voice, he squealed, "I got TWO BABIES!!!!"