Ever since our new baby cam along in August, my elder daughter has been fascinated by the concept of kinship and family.
When we brought her sister home from the hospital, she asked me "Mummy, do we get to keep the baby?"
I said "Yes."
"But we didn't get to keep baby Monty." she said "He died but he can still be in our family. I wish he hadn't died - I would have liked to have kept him, too."
She is very keen to understand what being a family is all about, as if we weren't a proper family before. "A family has a mummy and a daddy, a big brother or sister and a little brother or sister." she told me on the way to school this week. "We have a family because I am the big sister."
She has also asked why she doesn't have a big sister and finds it hard to comprehend that it's because she is our first baby!
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