James turns 5!

Today is James' 5th birthday!

I sit here and write it and I am still in shock!

It really doesn't seem that 5 years ago we welcomed this tiny baby weighing 6lb 8 and 3 weeks early into our lives. Out of the two boys James was the one we had a home birth with; such a great thing to do if it ever interests you but because of this it actually made his birthday even more special.

If he had been born one day earlier we wouldn't have been able to have a home birth due to potential risk factors of an early birth. If he had been a day later his Mum would have had a different midwife to the one that she had been seeing all that time because she was off on holiday; even more that the specific midwife was also on that exact night shift too. James, subsequently, was born at the perfect time!

James is the boy with an angelic face and a mischievous mind! (I have no idea where he gets that from!)

Over the last 5 years I have changed dramatically as a parent and I can say wholeheartedly that this is all down to him. Everything I thought I "knew" about being a parent that I believed I learnt with his brother he decided to throw caution to the wind and be different!

James is difficult to write about because there is so much about him; he is a complex but lovely boy. I tried to write a special post about him, even tried to do a letter to him on his birthday, but every time I tried I couldn't get it right; instead I thought I would show you his ever changing face!

He was so small!

The first time the dynamic duo met!

A month old and getting bigger!

Then he worked out that he could be cute!

His first birthday! Where he learnt how to eat cake from me!

At almost 2 they were the same size!

Then he got mischievous and adventurous! 

Then I met the threenager, Jamesosaurus!

At 4 he became my Superman! Cheeky, funny, confident and strong willed; my little hero but still troublesome!

And still haven't learnt how to eat properly!

Now at 5 I am looking at this boy who has transformed from the baby I knew into a strapping young lad who I adore to the ends of the earth.

We may clash and I still may have trouble relating to who he is at times but I love him.He may still keep me on my toes and possibly still be cheeky and mischievous but every day that he grows and changes is just another day that I love him more.

My beautiful and not so little boy, happy 5th birthday!