My Baby Brother--Celeste

This past Christmas my baby brother was born and since that day my life has changed completely. A few months before he was born, my family was going through a bit of a rough patch. My sisters and I were not extremely excited to be having a new baby brother; we felt it was too soon for my mom to be having a baby with her boyfriend. Before I found out my mom was pregnant I was having an extremely tough time accepting her boyfriend into my life, and once she told me she was pregnant it made it even harder for me to accept him. For a while I was angry with her and my dad because the situation brought up past memories with my dad when he told me his girlfriend was pregnant. It was hard for me to accept the fact that my parents were really separated and that they were moving on from each other. As a daughter I liked to believe that my parents would one day find their way back to each other because things would be so much simpler that way. However now that some time has past I realize my parents found happiness and that it was okay that it was not with each other. However I didn’t always feel this accepting towards their new happiness. Before when my aunts and grandma used to ask me if I was happy that my mom was having a baby, I would try my hardest to change the subject. I didn’t feel comfortable talking about how there was going to be a new baby in the house and when I would talk about it I couldn’t help but say sassy remarks. I thought that with a baby in the house I would be up all night because the baby would constantly wake up in the middle of the night crying. Or that I would be stuck at home babysitting when my mom would go run errands. To my surprise my experience with my baby brother so far is nothing like this. The night before Christmas my mom went to the hospital to have my baby brother. I remember my sister waking me up at about three in the morning on Christmas day to tell me that my mom was at the hospital having the baby. I couldn’t help but feel excited which was shocking to me because I didn’t feel that excited to be having a baby brother until that moment. I just remember my sisters and I were laying in my bed together waiting to get a phone call that the baby was born and healthy and that my mom was okay after giving labor. Around five thirty in the morning we got a call that the baby was born and he was healthy with ten fingers and ten toes and I got to talk to my mom to see how she was doing. After that phone call I was so excited to meet my brother, it was as if he was a little Christmas miracle because everything started to change. I remember asking my mom to send me a picture of the baby and when she sent me the picture, he was just the cutest thing because the nurse put him on a little Santa hat because he was a Christmas baby. Once me and my sisters went to go visit the baby in the hospital I immediately grew attached to him. He was so tiny and sweet that I didn’t want to let him go. When my mom came home from the hospital a couple days later with the baby I was excited to just hug my mom and lay with her and hold the baby. As time started to pass every week was such a blessing to have the baby in the house. When the baby would cry I wouldn’t mind making a bottle for him and feeding him or babysitting him when my mom had to run to the store really quick. I wanted to take care of him and spend time with him because he is such a sweet, and happy baby that it brought me joy to be with him rather than stress. I even gained more of an appreciation for my mom’s boyfriend because he was so good with my baby brother and assisted my mom with anything she needed help with. I felt more at ease knowing that my mom was with a good man who was a good partner, father, and stepfather. If my brother never would have been born I probably wouldn’t have gained such a close relationship with my family as I do now. With the baby around it’s like everything is more exciting and happy and whenever he does something new such as pick up his head on his own or smile at you when you do something funny my life gets just a little bit sweeter.