On Monday June 22nd at 6:44am (EST) I became an auntie for the second time in six months! My sister-in-law Jacyntha gave birth to my nephew Ethan after a grueling 16 hours of labor that ended in a c-section. He is 8 pounds 10 ounces! Mommy and baby are both doing well!
I can’t even begin to describe how it feels to be an aunt. Before Charlie was born, I never really understood friends of mine that would say their nieces and nephews were their world. I understood that they loved them of course, but the depth of that love was something I could never fully grasp. But that was then…
I remember the first time I held Charlie, my heart literally melted! Suddenly I knew exactly what my friends had been talking about. That little boy instantaneously stole my heart and there was nothing I could do to stop it! (not that I’d want to). Something about holding your own sister’s child is miraculous. He was (and still is) this perfect tiny human with so much life ahead of him. Life that we, as his family, will be responsible for shaping and guiding, each in our own ways.
Ethan and his parents sadly live in California and with my due date rapidly approaching I’m not going to have the opportunity to meet him in person until Christmas time. We are making every effort to get Brian out there in the next few weeks, but with work commitments and the end of my pregnancy it’s a little tough. It breaks my heart to not be able to hold him and look into his sweet little face – but thanks to the advances in technology we were able to FaceTime with them last night. He is so beautiful I can’t even stand it! He definitely looks more like Mommy than Daddy right now!
It truly is amazing how something so small can change your life infinitely, and I’m just their AUNT! All I want to do is spoil the heck out of them and make sure they know every single day how loved they are!
Seeing the joy my nephews bring to their parents makes me even that much more excited for the birth of our son. I have joked with Sarah that I hope I’m as obsessed with my own child as I am with hers otherwise I’m in big trouble! And now, that feeling goes for Ethan as well. I haven’t even met him and he’s all I think about! Those two little boys have made my heart grow about four sizes already!
I have heard people say “you never really know love until you hold your own child in your arms” – but being able to hold Charlie and see Ethan makes me wonder how much more my heart can actually take!
There really is nothing like being an aunt – I can’t wait to watch these two grow up and see the kind of men they turn out to be. They really are the lights of my life!
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