I got a new niece this week. She is perfect. I have 5 nieces and 3 nephews and it still amazes me how much I can love them all so much as soon as I meet them. Luke is over the moon for baby Madelynn. I didn't get to spend much time with her yet but I am assured she is a regular newborn who sleeps, eats, and poops all day. I have a cold that came about as I was leaving work on Friday, effectively keeping me in my pajamas all weekend, save for the Saturday morning trip to the doctor to find out Luke has strep throat again. While it would be easy to be dramatic about being too sick to spend any time with the new bundle of joy on my days off, I still feel blessed. After the second dose of his medicine, Luke exclaimed "I'm not sick anymore!" Although he is still sick, he is feeling better. After his declaration he then stated his favorite form of celebration, "Parade!" It always makes me smile. He is also in major repeat mode. My favorite example of this from this weekend was when Jeff asked me how I felt yesterday and when I responded "I feel terrible" Luke said without hesitation "I feel terrible too!" He said this with a smile on his face and then asked me to tickle him.
I did get to see Madelynn during the week, and hopefully will get to snuggle with her more this coming week. Welcoming her into our family I am reminded how wonderful it is to be an aunt. This blog is full of my thoughts on motherhood, but being the fun aunt is pretty awesome. I hosted my sister's 2 older daughters for a sleepover on Friday, to attempt to allow some more sleep for my sister. During the sleepover - which consisted of taking the kids to dinner and being the loudest and messiest table at our favorite Mexican restaurant and watching Chipwrecked on an air mattress in the living room - Monica proclaimed me to be better than her mom because I let them stay up late and watch movies. While I realize these are not wonderful qualities in a mom - they are awesome qualities in an aunt. We danced around the house and ate snacks and had a pretty fun Friday night.
I am also blessed with a wonderful friend who is having playdate with Luke while I am sick in bed and my husband is at the Jaguar game. I'm sure he will come home smarter than he left. And my wonderful mom will be over to bring me some chicken noodle soup soon.
With all these wonderful people I am reminded of one of my favorite Dave Matthews quotes "Turns out not where, but who you're with that really matters"
