It’s no secret that I hold a special place in my heart for Maddie Spohr. The current design of this website and the post I wrote on her birthday are testaments to that fact.
It’s also no secret that in Thomas, Liz and I have a very astute and observant little boy. He is truly the smartest person I know. Which means that he knows all about Maddie. In great detail. We talked about her often in April and May. He asked all of his questions, some of them many times. Eventually, as he does with everything, he was satisfied with his understanding of what happened to Maddie, and he moved on. While she is still occasionally a topic of conversation, she doesn’t come up nearly as often as she did last spring. Until last Friday.
On Friday Maddie became a big sister when her little sister Annabel Violet was born. Maddie and Annie’s parents Mike and Heather posted pictures of Annabel on Heather’s blog on Saturday. After looking at them I asked Thomas if he wanted to see pictures of Maddie’s little sister.
“Yeah!” he said, and then “Aw. So cuuute.”
Then his eyes got big and he turned to me and said, “Daddy, was she born like her sister?”
“No,” I said. “She was born healthy and on time.”
“Oh, I’m so happy to hear it.” He then danced around the room, picked up a toy dinosaur, and roared ferociously.
Congratulations Mike, Heather and Maddie. Welcome Annabel!
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Oh hai cuteness and nearly making me teary. AWWWWW.
Happy, inDEED.
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Aww, it sort of breaks my heart that he understands what happened to Maddie. But what a sweet, smart kid you have there.
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You and Liz have raised him right. So sweet and caring. And, yaye for full term babies.
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I adore that boy.
I am so thrilled for them. I keep going back to look at that beautiful little girl. Very happy day, for sure.
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He understands so very much and I know some of it is his natural inquisitive “MUST KNOW” way, but they way you two help him understand is really a beautiful thing and the reason he is who he is.
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Oh my goodness, what a sweet boy. So cute!
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