The Stork has been!!

If any of you have read my previous Baby Blues blog, http://goo.gl/SE94GO  you will know that I have been eagerly and  impatiently waiting for the Stork to visit my family!

Well!  its been!!  and delivered a beautiful bouncing (why do they say that?? thats the last thing you want to do with a new baby..) boy!  Weighing in at a whopping 8lb 10oz, which for a second baby was a bit of a surprise to his mother!  Considering all us ‘experienced’ mums said that 2nd babies are usually smaller than the first…

I’m sure my daughter wont mind me saying that it was a difficult birth as sonny-jim was at one point laying back to back  (notice that little cruise pun there?) which made labour all that more painful and slow.  However all came right in the end, and little Lennon was born on the 19th October – only one day late, and only a day before his big sister’s 3rd birthday!   What a present!

I couldnt wait to get to the hospital to see my new grandson, and was able to catch a glimpse of him a couple of hours after he was born.

Mum & son came home the next day, just in time for big sister Layla’s birthday party, and the celebrations began!  Poor Lennon must’ve thought every day would be as loud and busy as this, what with all the family fussing and cooeing over him and making a big fuss of the birthday girl as well!

Lennon with his very proud grandparents

I’ve been doing my bit since Lennon arrived, to help my daughter recover, and build up her strength to care for 2 children now, although she has a great husband and family support of sisters, aunties uncles and proud grandparents.

I am very proud to have 4 gorgeous grandchildren now, 2 gorgeous girls, aged 18yrs and 3yrs, and now 2 handsome boys aged, 13yrs and of course little Lennon.

Did you know:  The legend that the stork brings babies probably originated in northern Europe, perhaps because storks arrive on their breeding grounds in Poland and Germany nine months after midsummer. Storks were encouraged to nest on people’s homes and properties in the hope that they would bring fertility and prosperity. The Hebrew word for stork was equivalent to “kind mother,” and the care of storks for their young, in their highly visible nests, made the stork a widespread symbol of parental care.