Eliana vs. The New Baby

NOTE: Cute family story ahead, some of you may want to avert your eyes ;-).

As I’ve said before Ola and I are expecting #2 in September.  Getting our current 2 yr. old, Eliana, to understand what’s happening has been fun.  We keep trying to explain that there’s a new baby in mommy’s tummy.  At first she kept saying that her little dolls were in there, and we’d try to get her to understand that there’s a real baby there. 

So the other night Ola was reading to Eliana and she realized that Eliana wasn’t paying any attention, she was thinking very hard about something.  Then she pointed to Ola’s stomach and said “there’s a baby in there”.  Ola said “yes”.  She said “it’s Michah (one of her dolls)”.  Ola was disappointed and said “no”.  After a little bit more time passed Eliana “no, not Michah, a real baby”.  Ola got excited.  Eliana said “yes, a real baby, we’ll have to go to the doctor and they’ll take it out.  And we’ll take care of it and feed it and put diapers on it and take it to the library”.  Ola was very excited that she was finally understanding, we finally had a breakthrough!! Then after another minute or two of thought, Eliana said “maybe it’ll be a small horse in there!”.  So much for the breakthrough.