On November 24, 2020, at 5:04 PM, I became an aunt during the pandemic.

 I really wanted to be in the delivery room with my sister, but I couldn’t because of COVID-19 concerns. I was really upset, so I was just sitting at home all nervous with my parents. Then my mom let out the loudest scream of joy. 

I ran over to her and there was a picture of him on her phone, Mateo Serrano. A few days later, they came home and I was the first person to get to hold him and I didn’t know how, so it was very awkward. 

During periodic school shutdowns, I learned how to take care of him, change him, give him a bath, feed him, and change his diaper. He is currently helping me get arm strength because I am carrying him everywhere. I am pretty sure I am his favorite. He only laughs with me (or at me, I don’t know which). 

When I was trying to change him for the first time, I was just looking at him wondering what to do after I put the diaper under him and before I could figure it out, he peed on my bed. I was just staring at him in shock, and he had the audacity to smile an evil smile. 

Another time I gave him a hug and it wasn’t a tight hug, but he puked on my hair and he laughed in my face. 

I really didn’t know what to do with him. I don’t really like kids. I don’t know what to do when he cries. My brain just stops like it is rerouting or something. When he is crying I just give him to my sister or my mother. 

Despite all of our differences, I love him. He is my favorite in the family.

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