Monday, March 23, 2009

little

When I refer to The Little Brother, I am doing so in a birth-order specific way. Because he is not in the least bit little. Especially in comparison to yours truly, who doesn't measure over five feet.

The LB was actually little for about twenty minutes of his lifetime. After that, he was able to not only outdistance me in laps around our kitchen, but could also lift tremendous obstacles (i.e. the coffee table that childhood friend Stacie and I were hiding behind) when attempting to catch me in our daily game of let's-see-how-much-we-can-torment-one-another.


Ours has been a brother-sister relationship of mutual conflict and toleration. I put Tobasco sauce on the LB's popcorn ball, he threw a large screwdriver at my head. I took the LB and his friend to the movies (so very uncool), he was the errand boy to carry notes back and forth between my friends.

Despite my best efforts, he's turned out to be a very cool guy. And moreover, he's turned out to be a very good man. A while back, he married himself a very cool girl. And yesterday, they brought this to the world:


A very little girl in his very large hands. Congrats, bro. I couldn't be more proud.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Found you via Shelly at Scenic Overlook. Congratulations on your new niece. She is gorgeous!

Love your blog!

Anonymous said...

Awwww, you're an aunt!!!

stacie d said...

I have so many memories with your little bro...some good and (honestly) many not-so-good! HA!! This is for sure one of the very best! He's the closest thing I have to a little bro of my own and I'm also very proud! I know he's already an amazing Daddy!

P.S. I hope someday he's on a family trip in Idaho and one of his children punches their sibling's friend in the face. HAHA! :)

artemisia said...

Congrats!

Eleanor Q. said...

Oh yay for new babies in the family! You're going to be the coolest aunt!

Alice said...

congrats!!! omgSMUSHY. so cute.