New baby, new blog

Well, the arrival of Alys aka Butterbean, our new daugter, seems like as good time to start as any. She eventually arrived:

2 weeks late, Helen was induced so no homebirth - but did the home from home unit, with a nice big bath/pool, labour progressed so quickly I only just got back in time (born about 20 minutes after I got there, much to our surprise). Anyway, she is gorgeous Home quickly as we could - born 00.22 a.m., home by about 10.00 a.m

So she joins our first daughter Elinor - aka Stringbean, as we stagger from one life event to another…..

Stringbean has been very excited about the baby for ages - she used to talk to it through mum’s belly button. She truly is her mothers daughter - pretty much the first thing she said when we brough Butterbean home was ‘can I take a photo’ - do we take the odd photo of her I wonder…..?