Daddee Yah!

‘Tis the season for it. But it was even more so this morning- Mummee and Caleb are home!

From the airport, Mummee and Caleb headed for Mummee’s parents’, where she will continue her confinement and recuperation. Last night, I offered Caitlin a choice of where she would like to sleep the night: At Grandma’s and be there when Mummee and bubs arrive in the morning from the airport, or with me at the apartment where she’d have to wait to be ferried over before Daddee goes to work. You guessed it: It is (has been!) Daddee all the way.

So this morning, upon arriving at Grandma’s, still in her pj’s, she rushed upstairs to see Mummee and baby-brother, for the first time.

The lack of sleep was gone. She was all of wide-eyed astonishment, ear-to-ear grin. She touched him for the first time. She stroked his head gently. She stroked his arm gently. She tried to hug him while Mummee was breast-feeding but was okay not being able to. She sat next to them, watching. She angles for a better view, as if still not close enough. “Babeeeee….” as if he would understand jie-jie’s calling. She looks up and grins at everyone in the room.

She seems complete. Now everyone’s home.