Sissy

First of all, I have a three week old, so please forgive me for not having my camera handy all of the time... sometimes I resort to using PhotoBooth, which means less than optimal photo quality. But it doesn't make the subjects any less cute ;)



I just want to talk about Sophia - or Sissy, as Amelia calls her - for a minute. When she was 19 months old and became a big sister for the first time, she immediately took to the role, mothering and doting on her new baby.



And now, three years later, she's once again proven to be the sweetest big sister in the world.



She wakes up every morning and asks to hold Henry first thing. She rushes inside when she comes home from school and plops down on the couch with open arms - wanting to hold Henry. She reads to him, she sings to him, and sometimes she is better at getting him calmed down than anyone else in the family.



Last week Amelia had an ear infection and wasn't sleeping at night, which in turn meant she was, um, a little challenging during the day. One night we could not get her to eat dinner, no matter what. It was pizza - her favorite - but she stomped her feet and insisted she was NOT hungry and would never eat. Grandma was in town and she had worn us all down. Finally, I asked Sophia to see if she could get Amelia to eat something - Sophia went into their room and whispered something to Amelia, and Amelia immediately ran into the dining room screaming "pizza!!!" and proceeded to eat a large slice. I have no idea what she said to her.



Here she was on Amelia's first Easter - she slowly got out one thing at a time out of Amelia's basket and showed it to her. It was so sweet!



Yep, she's the best Sissy in the whole world!



P.S.
In this post you can see how much baby Henry looks like baby Amelia did!