Meeting and getting to know each other

The next morning (November 5th) after we woke up, John was brought into our room to see his baby brother. He was all excited to see us, and then he saw something squirming on the bed, and got really curious. We brought him up to the bed, and I picked up Ben to show to him. He pointed and was really curious, but when I tried to put him on his lap he would have none of it! Later that day, Ben was on my lap, and John came up to me and looked at his baby bro. He then proceeded to point out his hands, take off his hat to look at his hair, point out his eyes and nose and mouth and then decided Ben needed a high five. It was too cute! He was very gentle.

Curious to see what the moving "thing" was in our bed.

"Um, he was better from afar, you can take him back mom."


Finding Ben's eyes, hands, hair and then finally after everything is deemed ok, giving him a high five.

Checking out the mouth and again the hair.


Since then, he has gotten a little more used to Ben. He wants to "help" (more see what is going on) when Ben is crying. He also likes to help him swing and bounce. The swinging assistance isn't too horrible, but when Ben is on the bouncer chair, John likes to try to push the chair all the way to the floor to give Ben a good bounce, so we have to watch them carefully and continue to remind him to be careful. The hardest thing now is the car rides. John enjoys kicking his feet and thus Ben's chair. He also enjoys playing peek-a-boo with Ben, which consists of pulling his "shade" (is that what they are called on the little carseats?) back and forth.