Bump photo

07/06/12, a photo by Stealth Leprechaun on Flickr.

There weren´t many. I did not grow gracefully. I ballooned like a balloon that has been blown up twice before and has totally given up the fight with gravity.

The beginning

28/07/12, a photo by Stealth Leprechaun on Flickr.

I'm just writing this blog so I actually keep a note of how these boys are growing and don´t forget what happened when. Plus family and friends can see what we´re up to without me having to share too much on facebook where not everyone cares about each tiny milestone.

I am not planning to make my life seem any more exciting or interesting than it is. To be honest it probably won´t be all that interesting and just a wee bit dull. But that´s life eh?

Anyway this is the beginning of Connor, or the end of the pregnancy and beginning of the end.

He grew,,I grew, thankfully Greenpeace didn´t roll me back in when I went to the beach.

Gender Disapointment

Now I am not going to lie finding out I was having another boy did give me some gender disappointment for a while. That´s why I didn´t want to find out at the scan, but never mind it doesn´t matter really. So Connor is a boy. But with a middle name Orlando I think it´s a fantastic name, which is one problem I had. No boys names jump out like girls ones do, but actually I think Connor Orlando is a cracking name.

But now I have my two boys I am very happy, they are lovely little men and bring me so much joy. I want to post about how fantastic they are before I post about my plan. Jordan also agrees that we won´t have another baby just for the sake of it, the next one has to be guaranteed a girl. But it´s OK there´s a plan. Plus I have also made peace with having two boys.

Now if I had a choice, 2 boys who are fantastic and easy to be around, or a girl who was a more challenging child what would I chose? Gotta go with better the devil you know haven't you. I have 2 cracking boys. They are absolute bundles of joy and easy to be around, and this makes me very happy. If I never have a girl it doesn´t matter. Apparently if you have boys you have friends for life. A girl I just met out here has a teenage son. He still gets into bed with her (OK that isn´t as creepy as it sounds). They´re close. Its fantastic. The main thing that worries me about a boy is we´re not so close and I lose them. But I don´t think that will happen, or it´s not guaranteed to happen just because they´re boys.

So before I talk about the plan or gender disappointment I want to do a post on each boy and why they are so lovely. I have written the post in my head a few times but it needs typing in apparently.