Two already??

This week my little girl turns 2. I can't quite believe it. I feel like it was only two seconds ago I was pregnant with her.. Oh no wait, that was the littler one..!

It makes me think about how I was feeling at this moment 2 years ago. Pregnancy throws all sorts of emotions and hormones your way but the last week was just so overwhelming for me.

Granted at the time I was still up a ladder painting the nursery, doing all the paperwork for my mother-in-laws new house and generally missing my mum. It was a contentious issue during my pregnancy whether my mum could be here shortly after the birth, my husband categorically said no. He couldn't understand why my mum should be here and his shouldn't. I think he gets it more now, men unfortunately always seem to see and understand things like that later.

That's beside the point though. The point is that you suddenly realise that this thing you've been nurturing and loving and already worrying about is suddenly going to be here, out.. And mobile. I had real trouble handing her over to other people, apparently that's quite normal and I'm not the only one, but I do remember the exact moment I realised it would have to happen. Of course I wrote a poem about it.

So as we come up to her second birthday here is my poem for my then beautiful unborn Pigeon.

Today your mine

But who knows tomorrow

The thought of sharing you

Fills me with sorrow

Your wriggles and kicks

Are mine to behold

And no one else notices

Unless they've been told

At night time daddy

gets kicked in the ear

And for him I'm happy

Your arrival is near

But You'll always be

My sweet little pigeon

Who gets the hiccups

And gives me indigestion

I can feel you moving now

And it makes me smile

You're running out of space

But we still have a while

Soon People will want

To Cuddle and coo

And it won't be as easy

As just me and you

Our now special bond

Will grow further apart

Until one day

Someone else steals your heart

But remember little pigeon

That I loved you first

So much so

I thought I would burst

You're the closest to my heart

That anyone could be

And I'll always remember

When it was just you and me x