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post #41 of 55
1/21/08 at 11:48pm
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Okay, here 's a start anyway:

Birth story--please critique my writing
post #42 of 55
1/22/08 at 10:08am
I love it! I'm so happy for you!!!
post #43 of 55
1/22/08 at 11:16am
I love it- but you still haven't answered the question of what happened when DS1 met DS2... We're never going to know, are we?
post #44 of 55
1/22/08 at 12:05pm
Beautiful! He looks so chubby and peaceful. Way to go, Mama!
post #45 of 55
1/22/08 at 12:13pm
Well, NOS, so far the birth story is excellent! How amazing and seems quite peaceful to me! And I just wanted to give you after reading some of your recent posts. You're a great Momma and will continue to be so with this new little darling.

Once again congratulations on such a beauty of a baby, and a beauty of a family!
post #46 of 55
1/22/08 at 5:38pm
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I love it- but you still haven't answered the question of what happened when DS1 met DS2... We're never going to know, are we?
OOPS!!! I totally forgot.

I guess I can try, even though I need to start with a disclaimer that my older son is a sweet, loving, sensitive, compassionate young man in the midst of an extremely stormy adolescence (he was an exceptionally undemanding and "good" baby and child, so he has a right to some turmoil and soul-searching now) and that it's not his fault that the universe chose to use him for some comic relief in this particular episode of our lives.

Okay, so I left off with Chris being in too much of a hurry to microwave my soup (and oh, I wanted that soup SO bad! I was positively ravenous and there was no way I could figure out how to juggle baby and placenta to walk to the kitchen and juggle bowl and pot and ladle and spoon and....well, you get the picture...) and handing me the oranges about 3" from where his brother was sleeping.

As much as I wanted that soup, I wanted my number one son MORE. The birth felt incomplete and unfinished. I love my daughter and she did everything right, but she was kind of irritating me. I had trouble getting to sleep because I kept waiting for my older son even though I knew that he had just finished his finals and that he stays at friends' houses on Friday nights frequently enough that he doesn't want to waste his cell phone minutes telling me if I don't call first. I had originally planned on telling him about the birth and asking him to stay home for the weekend and skip a few days of school to help me, but that question he asked:

"Are you feeling okay, Mom?"

kind of changed things. I hate lying to my son and I wasn't going to do it. I felt fine.

dd and I talked about it a bit the next morning and laughed and worried about how horrible he was going to feel when he found out what he did, and then I called his cell.

He was in the middle of a theater watching a movie. I can just imagine all the heads turning and the nasty looks. He wouldn't have had his cell on "vibrate" if he hadn't been "on call" for a baby due in a few weeks and he certainly wouldn't have answered if the caller ID had shown any other number. Can you blame him for being a bit peeved when he heard:

"Hi son, how's your day going?"

So he shoo'd me away the same way his sister had shoo'd him away during ds2's and my post-birth nap.

I did feel bad, but this wasn't something I wanted to tell him on the telephone or interject as some huge emergency when ds2's birth had been such a normal part of life and ds1 still had this TV horror story picture of birth as something so terrible that his mother could DIE!!!!!!!


I didn't flinch. dd did. She called him a few hours later and told him to get his patootie on home ASAP. within five minutes of confessing that she had, I heard a speeding automobile, a squeal of brakes, and footsteps racing up to my front door as if the house were burning down.

ds2's and my bedroom door burst open and a totally unfamiliar tender look appeared on ds1's face as he knelt down next to his brother and said, "Hi, dork."

He has never called his little bro anything else and I am NOT
putting "Dork Lastname" on the birth certificate no matter what I promised during this pregnancy!!!!!

ARGGGH! I hate names! They're just society's way of labelling people so it can exlpain them away without having to get involved!
post #47 of 55
1/22/08 at 5:49pm
"Hi dork."

Oh my word - it's such a "brotherly" thing that it seriously makes me want to cry. : NOS, you are one lucky woman.
post #48 of 55
1/23/08 at 1:55am
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Here is the first pic of my gorgeous Capricorn sons together.
post #49 of 55
1/23/08 at 3:02am
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Here is the first pic of my gorgeous Capricorn sons together.
Aww that photo is precious! Congrats again on your new baby......
post #50 of 55
1/23/08 at 3:05am
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Here is the first pic of my gorgeous Capricorn sons together.
That's an amazing picture!
post #51 of 55
1/23/08 at 3:50am
i love the story!!! and that picture is great!
post #52 of 55
1/23/08 at 11:55am
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Originally Posted by noordinaryspider View Post
Here is the first pic of my gorgeous Capricorn sons together.
That brought a tear to my eye- you can tell your older son is in love with his little bro. And "hi dork"- I agree with Operamommy- what a brotherly sentiment!
post #53 of 55
1/23/08 at 2:29pm
You got me a little teary. Your boys look very peaceful together.
post #54 of 55
1/23/08 at 2:38pm
NOS your boys are sooo handsome! You are one lucky Mama. Hi Dork is such a brotherly testament of love! This is a story that will be happily retold in your family I am sure.
post #55 of 55
1/23/08 at 3:29pm
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Originally Posted by noordinaryspider View Post
Here is the first pic of my gorgeous Capricorn sons together.
Oh, that photo totally made me tear up, that is SO SWEET!!!!!
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