Aubrey Lynn Drummond

It’s a girl!! Yesterday, November 10, 2006 at 9:19am, my baby sister Maegan gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, 6 lbs 12oz. and 19 inches Aubrey Lynn Drummond. Mom and baby are both doing great, Grandma and Aunt Melissa were able to make the trip up to Nebraska to be with Mom and Dad as they welcomed their first baby as well as the first baby to enter into our immediate family in quite a long time (13 years!).

I am quite excited to officially be “Aunt Michelle” – so much so that instead of “Aunt Michelle,” I am thinking of asking all of my siblings to have their children call me “Tia,” which is “Aunt” in Spanish. :-)

Although reality has set in a bit and I am starting to feel old (this means that I can have a child too…but don’t expect that anytime soon, haha), I do have to say that when I received the news via email that my sister finally had her baby, it did not seem like reality. I knew my sister was pregnant…after all, I saw her when her belly first started to show way back in July and we all knew that this day would someday come. But it is really craziness to think about it: someone, with almost the exact same genetic makeup, same blood, and only 15 months younger than me, had produced a child with parts of the same blood and same genetic makeup that we both share. God truly is amazing and life is a wonderful gift.

I am sad to think that I will not see my little niece until just after her second birthday, but I am comforted by the fact that my family went through the exact same thing when Maegan was born. When Maegan was born, my Mom, Dad, and I were living in Berlin, Germany (my Dad was in the Army and was stationed there). The four of us did not return to the U.S. until just after Meagan’s second birthday and thus, no one in my family saw Maegan outside of pictures for the first two years of her life. Although there were missed opportunities of watching a child grow, this amount of time did not have an affect upon Meagan’s relationship with any members of the family. This being said, I am truly looking forward to not only keeping in touch with my sister and receiving pictures of my new niece, but returning to the States to meet Aubrey and see the wonderful mom that my sister has become.