Rubber bands and Fire Trucks

 A very typical question you get when you are pregnant with the second, I am finding, is "Well, what does Cap think of the new baby coming?" This is somewhat tricky to answer. After all, he was about 20 months old when we starting sharing the big news with him. The first few months, he didn't really care much. No big deal. Since about January, he has changed a lot with this new concept of a new baby around.

I would say every other day, typically, you can find Cap doing some of the following:
kissing the baby
tickling the baby
tackling the baby!
telling the baby to come out and trying to "grab him" out of my belly button
putting toys up my shirt for the baby
telling me what he is going to "teach" the baby
etc. etc.

Cap has such a great personality. I am not worried how he will react when this kid is actually out of my belly and with all of us in person. He is going to be a great big brother. I just don't know if he gets that this kid won't be able to play with his trucks with him right away:)

Cap found these rubber bands several weeks ago when it was too cold to play outside. He was SO focused and patient on putting them ALL on his dump truck. He played with them for days! Now they just get played with for 10 seconds and then take 30 minutes to pick up. I decided to put them away for a bit, so they will become a hit when we need them to be:)

cute little tongue hanging out

We have some good friends here who are part of the Air Force. Jacob is a firefighter for the Academy. He offered to take Cap to see the fire truck and station one early evening. Jacob and his wife Lacey have 2 kids. Riley is 10 months older than Cap. Leyton is 3 1/2 months old. Cap and Riley have tons of fun together most of the time. We love this family!

Cap has SO MUCH FUN! We still talk about how he got to ride in a fire truck and honk the horn. What a treat for this truck loving boy for sure!

Enjoy!