Subtitle: Thank Goodness for Video Technology

Recently hubby and I took a “Spring Break” while our teacher son (the twins’ father) was on school break. We took the opportunity to make the dreaded trek from Virginia up Interstate 95 to New Jersey where our younger son, his wife and their daughter (Lacey) live. 

It had been three months since we saw them, which is a blink of the eye for us, but when you’re five months old, like Lacey, it’s three-fifths of your life! So I wasn’t expecting her to be  completely comfortable with us right off the bat. The good news is that she was happy to let us sit with her and play with her. (I think we sang every baby/nursery song we know…several times!)  She just didn’t want us holding her, at all! 

Aside from telling myself repeatedly that this is normal behavior for a five-month-old infant, I reminded myself that her daddy (my son) wouldn’t let anyone near him until he was well into toddler-hood. He wouldn’t even let my sister babysit, and she saw him all the time. So Lacey gets her standoffish-nesh honestly!

It wasn’t just hard on us. It was hard on our son and daughter-in-law who had been looking forward to seeing their little one interact with grandparents who don’t get to see her often. (And they might have even wanted to sneak off by themselves for lunch or something….didn’t happen.)

It was hard to say goodbye when it was time to leave. But we made a plan to use technology to help Lacey stay acquainted with at least our faces and voices. A couple times a week we video call each other so hubby and I can talk baby-talk to Lacey, tell her how beautiful she is, how much we miss her, and how much we love her.

Will it help? I figure it can’t hurt! We’ll find out later this month when we make another trip north. Wish us luck!