Category: The Family Front

My Lil’ One has got the Mumps… :(

That explains why he was in such a cuddly mood on Friday when I went to see the boys, but it doesn’t make me feel any better…

Those are the moments where I miss having them with me full time the most. I miss snugging down with them on the sofa watching TV whilst they cuddle up to my chest… or in TB’s case, just lay against my side… for some reason he likes to snuggle up under my arm… :)

My boys mean the world to me… I wish I could be with them full time again… but things don’t always go the way e plan… Not being able to be there to nurse Lil One to health is the one of the times that kills me the most… specially when I am being accused to not trying hard enough (long story… and one that is not worth going on about so I just won’t)…

The ex asked me if I could go and stay with them for a couple of days this week… But I can’t do anything until Friday which is the day I’d having them fo the weekend anyways…

All I can do is wait and hope my Little Boy gets better soon so I am able hear that giggle that never fails to brighten up my life…

Dear Jelly Tot,

There are just so many things I woud like to tell you… Mummy insists that you can’t hear me when I talk to her belly trying to reach you… but I am stubborn… And I really hope I am right… If nothing for the sake of you remembering my voice when you are out of there.

I wish I could spend more time just listening to your little noises whilst leaning my  my head on mummy’s lap and telling you of both of both things important and unimportant… Unfortunately life gets on the way and the time we spend together is never enough… Life is complicated out here… More so than it should sometimes… But rest assured that daddy will be here for you whenever you need me when you’re out.

We are all here waiting for your arrival, but take your time… We’ll be here when you’re ready to come out… Would you give me a favour and give mummy a few extra kicks while you’re in there? She keeps telling me you’re lazy on the kicking department… I say you gotta step up a bit because I wanna few a feel of those little kicks too… Please…

Your brothers are all very excited about you coming out too… Well… all but Lil’ One as I’m not really sure he realized what’s going on yet… but T and J are giving us some great ideas about what your name should be, even though we still don’t know if you are going to be a boy or girl. Ah… they have actually accepted the possibility of you being a girl too so don’t worry… no matter what I think you will be allowed in their “tent” games.

Even the cats seem to love you already… it is funny t see how they perch up on top of mummy’s belly whenever she is laying down near them. II’d post a picture of it… but I think mummy wouldn’t be to impressed of my publishing a photo of her sleeping… :) )

I can’t wait to to be able to hold you tight… and kiss you and be able to feel you too… to hear your little noises out live… to see hold your little hands on mine… to see your little face… Not looking forward to smelly nappies… but that is part of it… so… well… I’ll let mummy deal with most of them should we?? (think she’ll will be so kind? :) )

I’m wondering if you are still going to be as shy as you are now when you’re out… I hope not as both me and mummy will probably have cameras pointed at you from minute one… Ah… your big brother is into photography too and I’ve just given him his 1st real camera… so yeah… there’s probably gonna be him too… (fingers crossed)

I hope I can be the dad you deserve me to be… I will put my everything into it, you can be sure of that…

Can’t wait to see you again next week… Could you please wave to daddy when the doctor has got you on the scanner ? :)

There’s so much I could say… so much I want to say… but all of it could be dwarfed by 3 simple words….8 letters… 1 meaning…

I LOVE YOU… I did from day one… And I always will til the day I am not waking in this earth anymore (and even then).

Hang on in there little tomato!

Love

Daddy

 

 

 

 

 

Last week Hales got one of those heartbeat monitors you can have at home to try and listen to the baby in the uterus.

Yeah… I know I’d heard the baby’s heart before when we went for the last scan… but I just couldn’t stop smiling at JT’s little noises when we did hear them together last week…

I say little noises because it took me ages to actually hear the heartbeat as JT kept moving and kicking… yeah… baby will be just as stubborn as mummy when she doesn’t want something… lol… But in the end after paying much attention and loads of  kicking and turning around I managed to hear the faint but strong little heart in the background.

I spent the whole night and the next day with a stupid smile on my face…

We are still pretty much convinced JT will be a girl… not just because of the whole round belly myth thing… but Hales says it feels completely  different than it was when she had J… And Jelly Tot is way lazier than him… and just as stubborn as mummy…

We’re not finding out the baby’s gender till JT is here… We were talking about that last night again… yeah… it is so much practical and all… but it kinda takes away element of surprise… and as we’re having a C-section she really wants something to look forward to… and yeah… so will I… expect tears… and maybe a shaky pictures… :)

Second trimester is not going exactly how I was hopping it would go… Some things still confuse me… and mummy’s moods still frustrate me at times… But tiny little things make up for it as usual… I knew it was never going to be easy… and no matter how things hurt sometimes, love and well… hope that things will get better with time, caring and a HUGE dosis of patience… (Thanks Sara) go a long way…

I can’t wait to be able to feel the little kicks through Hales belly… I actually dreamed about that last night and I really didn’t want to wake up from that dream… But real life tends to get in the way… :)

TB keeps asking me if he can talk to the bump when he sees Hales on Friday for out “sleepover”…  He is being careful about the subject… bit I can see he is just as curious as he was on Lil One’s pregnancy. Although I can see he is curious in a different way… it is, after all, a completely different situation. With Lil One he was there every day of the run… And of course it was the same mum as his… The fact is that I am not sure how to deal with him… Specially as I don’t know what goes on on his mind… He is too much like me and won’t share openly unless he absolutely has to…

When he asked me to make him a blog I saw an opportunity to gase into what’s in his mind… but there are all the dangers that involve in him having a blog… today Aly gave me an idea that might work… Having him Guest Posting at urbanvox.net … That idea makes me happy… :) he already Vlogs with me a lot… so it won’t be too different will it? :)

I also seem to have rediscovered faith and that is something that is growing on me just like the little life that is growing in mummy’s belly… I still don’t know where it will take me… but I am more than happy to go where it goes.

We’re half way there… Time is flying and I can’t wait to meet our littlest one face to face… We’re half way there…

And I can’t stop smiling… :)

My kids are my pride and joy and I tend to broadcast every single one of their little milestones and pearls over the internet for everyone to see, be it on twitter, Facebook, my blog or whatever means I am favouring at the day. He is no stranger to computers either, at 6 years olf he has his own favorites folder and even uses google to search for subjects he finds interesting (usually lego, star wars or club penguin related things).

They have been blogged about every since they were born, and let’s put it like that, all of us parent bloggers do share the whole of their lives for the world to see. With TB it has been no different. His mum is a blogging addict, being a blogger is one of the biggest parts in my lif too and so is Hales… Hell even my parents are having a go at blogging…

Considering that every single adult that holds importance in his life is, in one way or another, doing it… I wasn’t very surprised when he came to me today and said:

Daddy, I want you to build me a website so I can write things on it every day!

When I asked him if he didn’t think he was too young for it he looked into my eyes and said:

“Daddy, I am almost 7 years old! Even B (one of his school friends) has a website! You have one, mummy has one, Hayley has one… don’t you think I should have one too?”

Although I would worry about his safety, and WHAT he ends up putting there  and all that I can’t argue with his logic… I mean he IS NEARLY 7 YEARS OLD *sniggers*.

I haven’t given him an answer yet. I said I would think and let him know next week… The fact is that I AM tempted to let him have it… IF I can make sure his posts can be kept secret and I can have parental control over it all… There are ways of doing it… I’m just not completely sure… I would love to know what goes on in his head…

How young is to young after all… Kids ar so much more mature nowadays…

What do you think???? Would you let your kid enter the blogosphere at 7 years of age? Is that old enough? What would be the limits you would impose??? I would REALLY love to know what you think about that… so please… Comment away!!!

We’re having a baby…

Yeah… I know this is old news now… But I feel like I am definitely ready to talk about it now…

It feels weird that I took that long to ge to it… Specially as this is one of ther things me and Hales craved the most since we found out… blogging about it… I actually dreamed a couple of times that I did it… yeah… I’m weird like that…

Then why haven’t I done it so far? The answer is… I don’t know…

I am not stranger to being a dad… I’ve done it twice as you know… full time at some point… it just feels so much different this time…

Don’t take me wrong… I feel just as happy… elated in fact that I am about to be a daddy again… It puts a huge smile in my face every time I see Hales belly… every time she tells me about the baby somersaults… every time she tells me some new sensation or worry or one of the little joyful things that happen… I nearly cried of happiness when I saw Jelly Tot’s scan… and it still brings me a huge smile to my face every time I look at the scan’s print out…

It makes me hopeful every time someone tells me they think JT will be  girl because of the Shape of her belly or anything like that…

Everyone always talks about how important and how incredible it is for the mum to be to be pregnant… and how it feels… and the bond mum and baby have… I can’t help to feel a bit left out…

God knows how much I want to have a relationship with JT from now on already… And being in a different address to Hales hasn’t helped at all… I would love to lay down at night with my ears on her belly and listen to the baby moving… to talk to the bump… I would like noting more than to sleep hugging the bump… And to be able to see how she develops and hold Hales tight at the end of the day and just… stay like that for a little while…

I am now living literally just around the corner… that made it so much easier… I get to worry so much less about being so far away like I was in Kent (almost a 2 hour drive)… I get to see them much more often… Yeah I do miss spending nights together… But being able to see her more often kinda makes up for it…

That in itself is confusing to me sometimes… I’ve been married throughout the pregnancy of my 2 first kids, and my role as a dad to be was so much more active… or at least it felt like it was… On TB’s pregnancy I was in every Dr’s appt… in part because most of the pregnancy was in Brazil and my Ex didn’t speak enough Portuguese to communicate with the doctors when my aunt wasn’t involved… I was in most of Lil’ One’s appt and well… there every step of the way…

Yeah… I am being active during JT’s pregnancy so far helping with everything I can… but it feels weird not “being there”… It is different n every single aspect…

Then again… this is just week 17… I can’t even feel JT kicking from the outside yet… The situation is brand new and I have only just moved closer so yeah… logic dictates that I will be around more often…

Yes I will be giving mummy the space she needs as an independent stubborn young woman… :) And yes… I will keep on learning how to enjoy my own space… How to love my individuality… and discover who da heck I am again… I am getting there…

New relationship… new mummy… new baby… new rules… And Now that I am ready to talk about it… new blog posts about it will come too…

:)

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