Big Sister, Hannah

I went with my parents Saturday to Lake Wales/Winter Haven to pick up Hannah from my cousins. Hannah was very sweet to watch with her cousins. She would come in from playing with "the boys" (my cousin Jenny's sons, Quinton and Chance, and my cousin Marcy's foster boys, Kyle, Cory and Harley) and would just point out the door at them and simply say, "The boys". That was her little tattling technique. She wouldn't say what they did or why she was upset. She'd just tell us who to blame and then run out to play with them some more. Whenever she says Chance's name, she changes her tone to a coaxing little song... "Cha-ance".

Sunday morning, we went to church for the first time since the C-section. It was hard at times since there were some people who still didn't know about our loss but it felt good to be in church again.



After church, we took Hannah to see Kyle in the NICU. She seemed a little confused at first but then she looked down at Kyle from Chris' arms and said, "Hi, Baby Kyle" and when we left she said, "Bye, Kyle" and skipped down the hall saying, "Big SISTER!" just like on her Big Sister Dora DVD.

She went with me to the NICU a couple more times during the week, each time looking at Kyle from a step stool through the incubator and saying, "Hi, Baby Kyle".