At 22 years old, I am now an older brother!
 

Last August, my parents (in their mid-40's) received the surprise of the century when my mother found out she was pregnant. My parents had always wanted another child, but it seemed pretty certain that I was going to be the only one when I became a teenager. The last nine months have truly is a miracle in every sense of the world.

Welcome to the world, Gibson Lee!

http://i.imgur.com/hDg5Jpd.jpg

Are you also the father ?

Congrats man! Wow.

I am no Targaryen.

When he's 21, you'll be 43.

That's crazy!

Congrats, big bro.

OK then, congratulations are in order.

congrats dude !

The weight of it did not fully hit me until I my father said goodbye at the hospital. I told him, "now go take care of your second son" and the reality that my parents brought another human being into this world hit me all at once and caused me to choke up.

Yeah, I'm being sentimental. I'm really ****ing stoked for my parents.

My dad had another child when I was 19 and my sister was 17. ****ing idiot hit the reset button on responsibility. My little brother's pretty cool though. It's awesome watching them grow and it really does happen soooooo fast.

Congrats to you and your family.

My oldest daughter is twenty years older than my youngest....they adore each other, as I'm sure will be the case for you also!

Congrats big brother, he'll need you later in life, and you'll have the opportunity to experience something very few do.....you are very fortunate!!

Blessings to you and your newest family member


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Thank you both! I was more than beyond words when I was face to face with him on Thursday. The mere idea of potentially hitting fly balls to him (or being a part of any of his hobbies really), makes me more excited than I can convey.

I have 3 aunts that are 5 years older or less than I am, an uncle who was a year older, and another who is a year younger.

The youngest of my 3 aunts married my best friend about 33 years ago.

That is ****ing weird.

For the next ten years, you should play up your superiority to your parents.

"I'm way faster than Gibson."

"I finished high school. Gibson hasn't."

"I'm two feet taller than Gibson."


Get the sibling rivalry revved up to its full extent.

Congrats!

From the experience of being the gap kid (though I'm just half of yours--11 years younger than my closest sibling), the first couple of life stages he'll see you more as another adult and less as a brother; but when you both get older that'll change. I'm good friends with my siblings now that I'm in my mid 30s and they're inching closer to 50. I started to see my siblings more as actual siblings once I started to move beyond my teenage years. :)

It seems more like you'd see them as aunts and uncles if you never grew up with them. I guess you have parents in common and perhaps some principles in how you were raised, but I would think that the parents would change after 10 or 20 years, so even that would be somewhat different.

But what do I know about it? I have one sibling who's less than two years different in age.

I finally have someone I can blame everything on!

My parents had 2 in their early 40s. Boy and a girl, 31 and 30.

I'm 44, I couldn't imagine having a newborn now.

Well, in my gap situation, I came pretty much right in the center... 11/12 years between me and my sibs, 12 years between me and the start of the grandkids.

On the one hand, I sometimes felt like an only child, on the other hand like I was a big bro to my nieces and nephews (4/5 of which are out of high school, and two married)...

It's hard to describe how it feels, b/c it's out of the norm of what a lot of people experience, yet it's also my "normal". I can tell by watching others my relationship with my sibs is different; but it's also closer than friend or aunt/uncle. Same is true with me and my nieces and nephews--it's almost more sibling like than normal.

Us gap kids are weird, but it's also fun (at least when you have good older sibs like I do)... :)

That's cool man. New life is a beautiful thing... Go for it man, he's your brother, but you can be so much more than just the average older brother. Have fun with it and be the best big brother ever...

Yeah, no way at 40.

My youngest is 12. I'm good.

Congrats to the whole family.

Be a good older brother and teach him about Uncle Charlie before anyone else does.

I know. I didn't think anyone was older than milkman.

To each his own... I know when I had my youngest (at 39), it was and is awesome.

I'm happy that you're happy. I don't think I would be.

Meh, things go through your mind (perhaps a little like when you're having kids at 18...), but there's a LOT more upside to it than risk, so it helps to keep you young. And it sure as heck makes meetings with 24-year-old elementary school teachers kind of fun.

It's all good, I just find working with kids very much more awesome than dealing with parents and all their Mama-Drama. It's odd, the longer I work with 50-somethings the more I realize that 10-somethings are often cooler, but the excuses are pretty-much the same...

Neither of your parents had heard of snip or rip!?!?!

My kids are aged 18, 14, 10, 2

I predict you'll have your next child in 8 years

Every niece and nephew I have are older than me. The closest to my age was born the same year just a few months earlier.

Nope.

My Dad was 46 when I was born. He said having me late in his life helped keep him young. My buddies gave me all sorts of grief because my Dad looked more like a Grandfather than a Father when I was a teen. All I know is that he was a great Dad and was a wonderful example for me.

Grats on the new baby Brother, Ben!

Had my first at 42 and my second at 47.

I'm good, too. :D

Very sweet picture. Enjoy being a big bro...

When I was 15, and my brother was 13, my parents had twin sons.

I left for college when they were 2-1/2. They don't remember when I lived at home for more than a couple of months at a time.

My calculus book from my freshman year in college has their scribble marks in it.

They don't remember a time before I met my wife -- she has always been a part of their life. Same with my other brother's wife.

I moved away from KC when they were around 10 and have only seen them for a few days per year since then.

We get along fine, but are very different. They have their lives, and I have mine. Without common interests (other than the Chiefs and my parents) and leading separate lives, it is difficult to have close relationships.

The math doesn't lie. He figured out the pattern.

Gave my oldest daughter a brother for her 21st.

Congrats!

1.) That has to be weird
2.) Man your parents are going to be exhausted when this kid finally leaves the house when they turn 60
3.) Ewwww this means your parents were doing it. Ewwww (unless your mom is hot)

Not sure this is worded in a way you completely intended. EDIT...or could be taken I guess.

Now you'll have someone to bring you weed in the old folks home.

Congrats!