The Question of The Hour

I"ve been asked several times by different people recently if we've told Athena about our plans to adopt again. We have. We actually told her pretty early on, right after we started the process again. I thought it was important for her to have a good long time to get used to the idea of having to share mom and dad since she's used to getting every waking moment of our attention and she's such an incredible mama's girl. She seems to have embraced the idea and constantly talks about when 'baby brother or sister' is going to come home. She knows that we're all going to go on a big airplane to Colombia to go and get 'baby brother or sister' and that we're all going to have to stay in Colombia on vacation for a long time until all of the paperwork is ready for us to return home with him/her. Every time she sees a plane in the sky now she asks if it's someone going to Colombia to go and get their baby brother or sister:) The only thing that concerns her is that poor Amber can't come along too and how much she's going to miss Amber while we're gone.
I think it's good that we told her so early on because she's had plenty of time (almost 2 years so far!) to get used to the idea of having to share mom and dad. A year ago if I would have held another kid she would have been nearly hysterical, crying and saying 'that's my mom!' and trying to push said kid off of my lap. Last week however, we had friends over for pizza and cake for John's birthday. I held their 6 month old baby for at least 15 minutes and Athena took it really well. In fact it didn't seem to bother her at all. She asked for several turns to hold the baby also. Maybe all of the prepping we've done with her has paid off or maybe she's just matured a bit more. Either way, I'll take it:) Now we just need that phone to ring:)