My youngest

Well I did wonder what I was getting when we had our youngest, my two other children could not be more dissimilar from day one, so I was under no illusions of expecting a clone of either of them.

Our youngest was Mr Laid-back and has remained so throughout his life. He is also Mr Relaxed, Mr Easy going and Mr Gets on with everyone. He doesn't really see the need to get worked up about anything.

I had the easiest of pregnancies and an epidural at birth made that so easy, I do wonder if that had anything to do with his easy going nature!! As a third child he did have to fit with what we needed to do whether that was play groups, more playgroups, visiting play friends or shopping. None of this getting him to sleep and not going anywhere !!! In fact he was amazing put him in the car and before we had gone ten feet he was asleep, unfortunately he still suffers a little from that as a passenger in the car and drops off at the drop of a hat!! He talked fairly early somehow managing to get his voice heard in the household!! What we did notice is that he could remember things very well and at one of his early tests he was able to remember at least 7 or 8 numbers in a row, I was lost at 5.....

I do remember he always had a beaming smile and would melt a situation by using it as you couldn't be cross with him....

We were lucky when we moved to our new house as he made the best of friends with a neighbour, they were inseparable. Unfortunately teenage life got in the way as did other interests.

He is a devil for not putting his head down to work on something, he doesn't like to be told either, that is something I have learnt. You can only put your ideas briefly forward and leave it at that otherwise you are on a sticky wicket. Not easy going.

I think he has some regrets that some of our lovely holidays were when he was young and he doesn't always remember them or only through photos although him and me had a really special holiday together, just us two, in Morocco. My OH was unable to come to a break we had planned, just the two of us!! so as our youngest was free he came. It was a joy. We had to follow an itinerary based around birdwatching!!, my husbands hobby, so there we were a young teenager and me driving over the High Atlas, visiting Oasis, eating with heads of a village, staying in isolated places where we were the only people staying and we had to go over two miles of sand, staying in a Riad in Marrakech in an area which my husband described as traditional!!! We had a ball.....It was great to get to have that experience with him, just him.

I love that he has a wide circle of friends, there is no type, he seems to get on with everyone. I do like that. The only issue I've ever had was when all these friends!! seemed to turn up at a house party. He had persuaded us that we could trust him!!!! to have a party with a few friends. We went away only to have my daughter at three in the morning ringing and crying down the phone. No body would listen to her to stop people coming in so the party became huge. Unfortunately at the end of the evening our sofa was literally broken in half!!!!! yes in half, my daughters glasses were broken and smashed, we had lost / broken most of the baubles on the Christmas tree and my poor daughter was trying to clean up messes that people were making around the house. And our youngest.... well he couldn't be found until they looked under our bed where he was asleep. Needless to say he has and NEVER will have another party at our house. The sofa is mended but not perfect!!!!!

That said, he does always make me smile, so darn cheeky.