Big Sister Challenges

Madison was so excited to meet her new baby sister in the hospital...as you can see from the photos in our previous post. She just loved kissing and holding baby sister Kennedy. She even thru a fit in the hospital parking lot after one visit because Mommy and Kennedy were not going home with her. Gramm had to chase her thru the parking lot- very scary time!
Coming home was a whole different ball game. It wasn't until we nearly checked out of the hospital that Mommy realized this was the first time she'd spent a night away from Madison. Although Mommy and Madison both seemed to do fine with the 2 night separation, in the end it may have been worse than we thought.
Madison is really having trouble sharing Mommy with Kennedy. Today she wanted to sit with Mommy and watch a movie, but Kennedy was nursing. Madison sat on the side of the boppy and pushed on Kennedy's leg. She looked at Mommy and said, 'All done baby sister'.
Daddy decided to go back to work today (Friday) since Gramm is here to help. This proved to be a bad decision when Daddy came home sick at 10:30am. He spent the day in our room holding back the contents of his tummy from coming up. With a fever of 102 we decided to keep him far away from the girls. Unfortunately that leaves one less grown up to help Madison with the transition.
Noah and his Mommy, Angie came by this morning to play with the new big sister and meet Kennedy. They brought yummy brunch, too! Madison had a great time playing and it was nice to have some focus back on her and not just baby sister. Of course we forgot to take pics of our special visit.
Gramm took Madison to Gymboree tonight for play time with her buds Ryan and Spencer. Just before they left, Mommy took some big sister time to paint Madison's finger nails for the first time. She held her fingers apart all the way to the mall and showed everyone her 'pretty fingers'.
When they got home Madison had special big sister ni-night reading time with Mommy, then wanted to rock (which is normal bedtime procedure) while being craddled like a baby (which is NOT normal) to fall asleep. We'll see what tomorrow brings.