Well last night was hard I won’t lie, our first night home and I dealt with lice, vomit and my 3 year old Steve crying in his sleep under his toddler bed. It was a rough night but it was our first night as a family so all the negatives were definitely outweighed by the positives. Steve’s head was still crawling I did not know how long it took for the lice treatment to work. I read the box again and waited a little longer.
We invited some family members over today and had them come in small groups I did not want the boys to get overwhelmed. We explained to everyone that we did not know how fast the boys would call them Grand Ma, Aunt etc… Before everyone came over to meet our sons we showed the boys, mostly Steve because he was older, we showed them pictures that we had put together for their life books that we showed them the first day we met them. We told them all their real names, who they were to us and who they would be to them.
As everyone came in we told them their real names and then the names that we would want them to call them. We were very surprised to see how quickly they called them the names we wanted. I don’t know if it is because they did not know any better or what but Steve had started calling us Mom and Dad before we even got home and he started calling them by the family names.
When the family introductions were done we went off to get more family pictures made. This time we went to one of those places that print the pictures while you wait. Having these be our first pictures of our sons that we could hand out, hang on our walls and show every one we knew.
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