nuthinbutpink
July 2nd, 2012, 02:29 PM
I cannot believe DS is nearly 2. I came upon all this GS info when I was pregnant with DD3...how time flies.
I will say that the last 2 years have been hard. Harder than before. DS is not an easy child and goes through rough patches often! He is very sweet and the spitting image of my DH and that part is cool. I'm glad I got to see how our DNA plays out when it is creating an XY.
Reading on here, I often find myself drifting back in time to when it was just the 3 girls and I wonder if things would be okay, if I would be okay if I had never decided to do elective IVF. I'm not sure. I have an obsessive personality I have learned over the years and once I become fixated on something, it is hard to back off. I wonder if I would have tried naturally...
4 kids is a lot really. I don't take them all out by myself that often but when we do go somewhere, we are a sideshow attraction. We get comments but I really don't care anymore. The kids like the comments and the attention and we just make light of the fact that we have a big family and it's really not an issue to us. The comments are mostly positive anyway, people do pay lots of compliments to the kids and myself so that is nice.
Now that the family is 'done', we just have to raise them right which is a challenge itself. My eldest daughter will be tough- she's a great kids but she will be the trial run for growing up for DH and myself so Lord help her. It's hard knowing when to say NO and when to be the bad guy I hate sleepovers.
Back the DS and the purpose of the forum, he has exceeded our expectations in every way. He blows through milestones and is as advanced as the smartest of our girls so I haven't really seen any of the steroetypical delays that people talk about with boys. Quite the opposite. He is busy, that is for sure. Constant movement and wants to go outside all the time. He loves golf already and my DH has actually taken him to the range to hit balls which attracts all kind of attention and he clams up there. He's pretty good though which I love. I hope he keeps it up!
I'll have to move on to the next age group soon I guess.
I will say that the last 2 years have been hard. Harder than before. DS is not an easy child and goes through rough patches often! He is very sweet and the spitting image of my DH and that part is cool. I'm glad I got to see how our DNA plays out when it is creating an XY.
Reading on here, I often find myself drifting back in time to when it was just the 3 girls and I wonder if things would be okay, if I would be okay if I had never decided to do elective IVF. I'm not sure. I have an obsessive personality I have learned over the years and once I become fixated on something, it is hard to back off. I wonder if I would have tried naturally...
4 kids is a lot really. I don't take them all out by myself that often but when we do go somewhere, we are a sideshow attraction. We get comments but I really don't care anymore. The kids like the comments and the attention and we just make light of the fact that we have a big family and it's really not an issue to us. The comments are mostly positive anyway, people do pay lots of compliments to the kids and myself so that is nice.
Now that the family is 'done', we just have to raise them right which is a challenge itself. My eldest daughter will be tough- she's a great kids but she will be the trial run for growing up for DH and myself so Lord help her. It's hard knowing when to say NO and when to be the bad guy I hate sleepovers.
Back the DS and the purpose of the forum, he has exceeded our expectations in every way. He blows through milestones and is as advanced as the smartest of our girls so I haven't really seen any of the steroetypical delays that people talk about with boys. Quite the opposite. He is busy, that is for sure. Constant movement and wants to go outside all the time. He loves golf already and my DH has actually taken him to the range to hit balls which attracts all kind of attention and he clams up there. He's pretty good though which I love. I hope he keeps it up!
I'll have to move on to the next age group soon I guess.