The Real Housewives of New York City star Erin Lichy’s kids are “so excited” for her and husband Abe Lichy to welcome baby No. 4 into their family.
“I know my daughter’s going to be a little helper,” Erin, 37, exclusively told Us Weekly while discussing Mezcalum’s partnership with Bartesian. “She talks about it every single day. She’s like, ‘This is my baby.’ So it’s going to be fun. It’s going to be great.”
Erin — who shares sons Levi, 10, and Elijah, 4, as well as daughter Layla, 7 with Abe, 41 — noted that their eldest will be “helpful,” but said “he’s just into his own life.” Layla, meanwhile, will be her go-to. “I’m going to lean on Layla a lot,” Erin said.
Erin and Abe, who know the sex of their baby but are keeping it under wraps, feel like their family is complete with their fourth child on the way.
“We are done. I feel like the family is complete,” she said. “I mean, it’s kind of disjointed in a way because I had the other three much closer together. This is a five-year gap. I didn’t remember half the things that I went through with pregnancy because it was just quite frankly, so long ago.”
With her fourth pregnancy, Erin has felt a closer connection to Abe. “We’ve been in a much better groove and just in a good place. And it’s probably because we’re f—ing old now,” she said. “We’re just in a different age. I was 27 when I had my first kid. I was just a different human.”
Part of being older? Erin said that she hasn’t done “anything” to prepare. “Maybe it’s like the nesting instinct coming in and the hormones — I’m like, ‘I need to start preparing, getting the room ready, getting the wipes out,’” Erin said. “I have not even really thought about it. Is that crazy?”
Erin, who noted that she got less and less baby supplies with the arrival of each child, says she now has “nothing” for baby No. 4. “This baby will just be free loading off whatever is existing in our apartment,” she quipped. “I know that I have such a great group of friends and family around me that I know people are going to bring stuff. And what do I really need in the beginning, you know?”
As Erin begins preparing for the arrival of her fourth child, the Bravo personality “can’t wait” until she can have a cocktail — specifically “something similar” to Bartesian’s Mezacalita’s capsule.
“We made a really amazing pod that tastes like our signature cocktail. It’s really fresh. It’s so delicious. I can’t even believe how good it is,” Erin told Us. “Bartesian is amazing because it’s like a Keurig for cocktails and the fact that everybody gets a taste of Mezcalum in their homes and so easily is just very exciting to us, so we jumped at the opportunity to work with them.”
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
