Still to this day I am absolutely overjoyed at having our son join our little family. After having two girls first and secondly expecting no son at all in future, it really has completed our little family. There’s just something incredible about little boys; their bond with their sisters is remarkable and just their cuteness alone makes him irresistible – except when he wants his own space! My heart breaks just thinking of how hyper, outgoing and cheeky this child is! He’s constantly on the move; super-clingy but likes being heard when feeling shy – which never happens with his other two siblings
Recently I noticed I hadn’t written my son Freddie’s monthly update in quite some time, making me saddened and surprised at myself for missing two outright. Last year when thinking “when will I stop writing these monthly updates”, but it seems the time has come already! While writing them has been fun and nostalgic for me personally, as they get older we tend to forget how many months old they actually are – though at some point soon we won’t need monthly updates anymore anyways; time truly does fly by as 20 months have gone since birth compared with just half an year since his next birthday is fast approaching us now and time truly has flown by with no notice whatsoever!
Life seems to fly by with one or two children, but adding another child has certainly changed my pace of living. Life has not been easy since her arrival; there has been sleep deprivation, depression resurfacing, anxiety increasing and being unable to cope most days; all draining and exhausting experiences that I am finding difficult to manage on my own. When there were only two kids you were usually able to keep them happy enough.
At first it was difficult, as both girls were hitting different milestones and learning new things at different times – as well as going through bad phases at different points in time. Now they’re older they often fought among themselves or with us; which can be very hard on all involved; especially with having another baby/toddler thrown into the mix! But somehow we managed to cope and eventually thrive together!
Starting over with three isn’t easy. Some may disagree, but in my experience it has been. Over the past 20 months there’s always been something going on; whether I’m telling off one of the girls for fighting or stopping Freddie from doing something he shouldn’t, pulling him away from something dangerous, trying to feed him attached to me and stopping him from pulling things down off tables etc… it seems constant every day!
