Well, the time has finally arrived. Ari is about to become a big brother. According to the doctors, it was supposed to happen two days ago. It's hard to believe how much the tiny baby we brought home from the hospital 21 months ago has changed--and how much our lives have changed. It's also hard to picture our little baby as a big brother!
Ari knows we are having a baby ("his baby," we tell him). But I'm quite certain he doesn't understand what it means. We don't know yet whether it will be a little brother or sister. But it will be a moving moment when we bring Ari into the hospital room to meet his sibling for the first time.
To Ari, that moment may be nothing more than a curiousity. But to a parent, it will be a profound moment. When I see Ari with his sibling later in life, I will try to recall that image of the two meeting for the first time. For Ari, life is all about the present. As parents, we get to glimpse both the future and the past.
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