The Bond of Sisters

It's been a crazy week! Last time I wrote, I told you about my drama with shingles/chicken pox. Well, I finally found someone to stay with the baby, but she is all the way in PA! My mom lives out there so at least she will be stopping by in the middle of the day and she will be sleeping at my mom's.

I never thought it would be this hard to be without my baby girl. I dropped her off on Sunday and I literally cried as I was driving away. I haven't admitted that to anyone out loud because I sort of feel like a loser about it, but it's the truth. The calls to my mom started immediately. She's usually complaining to me about how infrequently I call her (at least 2-3x/week) but now I have been calling her about 3-4x/day. I know she is secretly LOVING it, but she would never dare say so as I think she believes if she acknowledges it then it will be over.
(Thankfully Leeya is doing fine and no outbreaks as of yet).

The other thing that I did not expect at all was for Liana to miss her baby sister. I explained to her when we were leaving PA that her baby sister would be staying with "Abuela" (my mom is Abuela and Hubby's mom is Grandma) because she was "sicky". She said "Ok Mommy, baby sister stay with Abuela. Bye Baby Sister, I love you!" And we were off. The next morning she comes into our bedroom and says, "Mommy, where's baby sister?" and I remind her that she is with Abuela. So she says, "Oh baby sister sicky" and makes the saddest face ever! I gave her a hug and promised her we'd call her later on in the day.

Then, on our way to the sitter she told everyone she saw on her way, as well as the sitter once we got there that her Baby Sister was "sicky" and she was with "Abuela" and everytime making that sad face. I swear, as much as I hear that the second child causes so much stress for the first child, I have to say that as of yet I haven't seen anything but real love between my daughters. I watch how Leeya reacts to Liana when she is literally inches away from her face talking/singing/reading a book to her and she is just all smiles. When Liana sees her sister in the morning, I've taught her to say, "Good morning" and the smile on both of their faces during this process is priceless.

I really love my girls and I am so happy and proud that even with how little they both are, I already know they REALLY love each other and the bond they will have will only grow.