A little while ago, while absolutely minding my own business, my phone chimed with a notification. – actually it buzzed because it’s always on silent, but for the purpose of the story I’ll go with it chimed. There were no words in the message, just a screenshot of a black and white photograph. It was very graphic, but also quite unclear. I had to look serval times and kept having to change the angle that I was looking at. It took a little while, but eventually I thought I had an idea of what it was. It made me smile!

I contacted the sender, who at that stage was playing hard to get, busy or some such thing- so my patience had to come into play! I’m not super good at being patient and had other people to contact on my drive home from work, but felt it was imperative to wait for a return call. Hours later (actually probably only about 20minutes or so, but again for poetic license and the drama of storytelling- hours!) I was finally called back!

I spoke to the person in question and said that I am usually reasonably skilled in making out details in pictures, but that this one had me stumped for much longer than it should have! There was a quiet chuckle, and then he said: ‘it’s an unsolicited dick pic mum…. We’re having another boy!”

So there you have it… the Squish is getting a Peanut… he is upgrading to be a big brother – happening end of October and I am sooooo excited for it!

There is always the bittersweet sting when big happy things like this happen… missing Claytie and knowing just how beside himself he would be! He loved babies and little people, and he was the best Dad to our boys. I love imagining how he would be with the Squish and the fun that they would have had together. I know he would be super happy to have more small things to love and I’m just going to keep loving big for both of us x