So folks, we have an announcement to make. I had planned to wait maybe a few more weeks, but we told the kids yesterday (I haven't seen them that excited for a while!!), so we might as well make it public.
If all goes well we are looking forward to Welcome a new family member around March 20th!
Meaning I'm about 10 weeks pregnant.
This also means that Big Guy and I will be parents of 8 children!! Wow. I've gotten used to 7, but 8 sounds like a lot of kids!! I guess 7 isn't far behind (duh!!), but when you hear the new number of kids, I guess you kind of realize that "Wow, we have a big gang going on here!"
The kids are so, so happy and excited. Our two oldest have been literally nagging for another baby lately, and it's been hard to keep quiet... I found out (the 7th test finally dclared it, blue line of white background, what I had suspected for a week or so back at the end of July) the morning after moving in to our house. Of course Hubby is over the moon, he gets all proud when I'm pregnant. "I did it again!!" I wasn't as excited to be honest... This last year has been so busy, with so many changes, and after JUST moving in to our house, I really felt that some "down time" was a good idea. But not. I guess I'm tougher than I give myself credid for??
I am excited now thou, and despite being tired, I feel really good, gaining weight at a fast pace. Yohoo!!
I guess we are all crossing our fingers for a little brother for our only boy, but whoever is inside there will be very very welcome in to this big loud bunch! A new connection to our new country. I'm a bit nervous about upcoming check-ups etc, realizing that my Finn is still very limited in many situations... I always had such great care back in Canada, and with our 3 youngest I had the privilage to have them at the brand new, beautiful maternity floor at the local hospital. So far I've been happy with the health care here too, but I was a veteran in Canada, having 7 babies there, so well, I guess I'll just wait and see!! Anyway... I guess this will give me new blog material this fall and winter!! I'll keep you posted!
Showing posts with label raising boys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label raising boys. Show all posts
Monday, August 22, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
along came a boy....
For those that don't know, or forgot, I am a mother of 6 girls and 1 boy. In that order. Our Little Guy is 17 months old now, and rules the household with a chubby fist. I thought I should "dedicate" this post to the smaller man in my life. (The Big Guy deserves his day in the limelight too, but not today!) I bet some of you are curious to hear some about our Little Guy, and my feelings about mothering a boy! Well 1st of all. Yes. Boys are different. Before Little Guy made his debut into this world, I often heard "Wait till you have a boy!!" As if having 6 girls was somehow a quiet walk on some far off beach... Sun setting in the west, and beautiful birds soaring the night sky. Well. It's not. I also heard stuff like "I rather have girls when they are small, and boys when they are teens" (small girls = easy, big boys = easy) I have dissed this too. My oldest sister has 7 boys, no girls, and 5 of them are in their teens now, and she went gray over nite...
I don't think one answer fits all. I have heard moms that have large families, with lots of boys and girls, saying opposite things of each other. "Oh, you are in for it with all those girls!", or "Oh, be glad you had 6 girls and not 6 boys!"
Well. Now we have 1 boy.
And he's just about the cutest, sweetets thing alive.
He's the Prince allrite, with his 6 maids attending his every need, and then some.
His mom and dad are still in awe that he actually came about!
When he was born the whole delivery room erupted in "IT'S A BOOOY!" (we had kept the gender a secret)
I said, "Are you SURE???"
Judging by the expression on my hubby's face, I was sure....
Awww..... He had a little buddy!
(My hubby is very, very weak for his daughters, and I have to be the main diciplinarian most of the times, he
takes them fishing and all sorts of stuff, but having a male sidekick, well.... do I need to say more??)
Big Guy actually sent out a birthannouncement the night of Little Guy's birth! Via email. Stating that Little Guy was born into this world, smelling like motoroil. looking for his fishing rod....
I was stunned that he had taken the time to figure out how to download pictures from the camera, and get this email out! The boy factor had something to do with it.....
Pretty soon our pink house, started to take on a blueish hue. I jokingly said that nothing pink could touch Little Guy! One day when he was laying in the living room, looking around, his 3 ½ year old sister figured he was looking for his fishingrod! (she had heard about her dad's comment in his email...)
Guess if the girls were excited spreading the latest family news to their friends? Soon the whole school had heard about the amazing happening! We got gifts from people we barely knew! Funny!
Well. Little Guys 1st year went by fast. From the get go he ate like a bear, and soon enough he started to resemble one! At 4 months old he was as heavy as one of his sisters had been at a year! And he kept the trend going, up to about 8-9 months of age, after that he is more "average" on the scale. He would ONLY nurse. No bottles. No baby foods. Only mom. It was pretty convenient when we moved that he was fine with me only. Now at 17 months thou.... He's doing better in the food department, and he's trying quite a few food options, but mom is still the best...
He's starting to speak, and he hums the tunes to a few songs (he's starting to add made up words to the tunes too). At about 11 months he said "Tractor". Not Barbie or doll or stroller. Tractor. Loud and clear. This made me realize that no matter what you do, (remember this guy had almost only girl stuff surrounding him from birth on!!), kids act their gender. Some people claim that if you serve them traditional girl and boy toys to both gender, all kids will play with all toys. True. To a certain extend. My girls have all played with dinky cars, build train tracks and they all love Legos. Their attention span with these things pale in comparison to the amount of time they can spend on their dolls and Polly Pockets. Little Guy on the other hand loves stuffed animals, and really hugs his favourite teddies and such, but the 1st thing he gets each morning is his hockey stick! (Big Guy bought it for him, it's a mini wooden one) The level of interest he instinctivly has in all my hubby's stuff is almost comical!!! His fishingrods that are 3 times the length of Little Guy, has been going through a lot of abuse lately. He wakes up making car noises, and holds an imaginary car in his hand that zooms through the air. This started when he was 10 months old. He goes and gets forks in the kitchen, that he fixes his ride-on cars with. The list goes on. He has a ton of sound effects for everything.
Today we went to K-Rauta (think: Home Depot), to order our fire place. Little Guy LOVES that store. He went and opened all the doors to all the sauna ovens, then shut them. "Shut", he'd say as he walked down the row of ovens. The forklift was a major deal. He's just pumped walking around in there.
Home Depot to our girls used to be as exciting as a dead cat on the road.
So. What's the conclusion??? Well. Our girls have done many similar things to him. Several of them have been WAY more active and "wild". We had one that LOVED "motorbikels". She'd stop dead in her tracks when she heard one, and look at them in awe. Another loved semitrucks, and used various pointy objects to "fix" stuff around the house. Litte Guy can be found pushing dolls in strollers. But somehow... it's different!! He's a little man. He loves his mom in a different way. And he looks up to his dad in a different way. I love the fact that we have a little guy doing his little guy things. He has not been harder or easier than the girls. Yes, he throws everything. Especially when he gets mad. At times he seems a bit harsher on his toys, but he's also stronger than the girls, so that explains it. He throws fits like his sisters, he hugs like his sisters... We are still at the learning stages of having a boy, but no matter what the future brings, he's worth every bit of it!!!
Like my mother-in-law says "They are just different!"
(she has 6 boys and one girl btw!!)
And I agree!
I don't think one answer fits all. I have heard moms that have large families, with lots of boys and girls, saying opposite things of each other. "Oh, you are in for it with all those girls!", or "Oh, be glad you had 6 girls and not 6 boys!"
Well. Now we have 1 boy.
And he's just about the cutest, sweetets thing alive.
He's the Prince allrite, with his 6 maids attending his every need, and then some.
His mom and dad are still in awe that he actually came about!
When he was born the whole delivery room erupted in "IT'S A BOOOY!" (we had kept the gender a secret)
I said, "Are you SURE???"
Judging by the expression on my hubby's face, I was sure....
Awww..... He had a little buddy!
(My hubby is very, very weak for his daughters, and I have to be the main diciplinarian most of the times, he
takes them fishing and all sorts of stuff, but having a male sidekick, well.... do I need to say more??)
Big Guy actually sent out a birthannouncement the night of Little Guy's birth! Via email. Stating that Little Guy was born into this world, smelling like motoroil. looking for his fishing rod....
I was stunned that he had taken the time to figure out how to download pictures from the camera, and get this email out! The boy factor had something to do with it.....
Pretty soon our pink house, started to take on a blueish hue. I jokingly said that nothing pink could touch Little Guy! One day when he was laying in the living room, looking around, his 3 ½ year old sister figured he was looking for his fishingrod! (she had heard about her dad's comment in his email...)
Guess if the girls were excited spreading the latest family news to their friends? Soon the whole school had heard about the amazing happening! We got gifts from people we barely knew! Funny!
Well. Little Guys 1st year went by fast. From the get go he ate like a bear, and soon enough he started to resemble one! At 4 months old he was as heavy as one of his sisters had been at a year! And he kept the trend going, up to about 8-9 months of age, after that he is more "average" on the scale. He would ONLY nurse. No bottles. No baby foods. Only mom. It was pretty convenient when we moved that he was fine with me only. Now at 17 months thou.... He's doing better in the food department, and he's trying quite a few food options, but mom is still the best...
He's starting to speak, and he hums the tunes to a few songs (he's starting to add made up words to the tunes too). At about 11 months he said "Tractor". Not Barbie or doll or stroller. Tractor. Loud and clear. This made me realize that no matter what you do, (remember this guy had almost only girl stuff surrounding him from birth on!!), kids act their gender. Some people claim that if you serve them traditional girl and boy toys to both gender, all kids will play with all toys. True. To a certain extend. My girls have all played with dinky cars, build train tracks and they all love Legos. Their attention span with these things pale in comparison to the amount of time they can spend on their dolls and Polly Pockets. Little Guy on the other hand loves stuffed animals, and really hugs his favourite teddies and such, but the 1st thing he gets each morning is his hockey stick! (Big Guy bought it for him, it's a mini wooden one) The level of interest he instinctivly has in all my hubby's stuff is almost comical!!! His fishingrods that are 3 times the length of Little Guy, has been going through a lot of abuse lately. He wakes up making car noises, and holds an imaginary car in his hand that zooms through the air. This started when he was 10 months old. He goes and gets forks in the kitchen, that he fixes his ride-on cars with. The list goes on. He has a ton of sound effects for everything.
I was at Finn class one evening, and coming home I found him wearing my night tanktop around his neck, while playing hockey...
"Plaid shirts aginst plaid shirts!!" Little Guy at 15 months,(he had just started walking a few weeks before!) joining some cousins for a game of hockey.
Brrrrmmm brrrmmmm.....
Chillaxing like a guy!
Today we went to K-Rauta (think: Home Depot), to order our fire place. Little Guy LOVES that store. He went and opened all the doors to all the sauna ovens, then shut them. "Shut", he'd say as he walked down the row of ovens. The forklift was a major deal. He's just pumped walking around in there.
Home Depot to our girls used to be as exciting as a dead cat on the road.
So. What's the conclusion??? Well. Our girls have done many similar things to him. Several of them have been WAY more active and "wild". We had one that LOVED "motorbikels". She'd stop dead in her tracks when she heard one, and look at them in awe. Another loved semitrucks, and used various pointy objects to "fix" stuff around the house. Litte Guy can be found pushing dolls in strollers. But somehow... it's different!! He's a little man. He loves his mom in a different way. And he looks up to his dad in a different way. I love the fact that we have a little guy doing his little guy things. He has not been harder or easier than the girls. Yes, he throws everything. Especially when he gets mad. At times he seems a bit harsher on his toys, but he's also stronger than the girls, so that explains it. He throws fits like his sisters, he hugs like his sisters... We are still at the learning stages of having a boy, but no matter what the future brings, he's worth every bit of it!!!
Like my mother-in-law says "They are just different!"
(she has 6 boys and one girl btw!!)
And I agree!
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