what's it like being a mum to two boys

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I'm pregnant and just feel fairly sure i'm going to have another boy. Just wondered what it is like to be a mum to two boys really.(ds will be 2.5 when baby born}

i have 2 ds one just turned 7 other just turned 10. its a bit manic, theres lots of noise and running around but really can be great fun. thet spend a lot of time playing star wars and building camps which is fun to watch. Also as the only female in the house i get lots of pampering and get to be the expert on girls

it's very lovely

Mine are like boisterous puppies. Lovely snuggly licky things. They do like to drink out of the toilet, though.

Well i have two boys two years apart and it's fab.

DS1 can't remember a time when DS2 wasn't around and they play lovley together (most of the time). Okay - they occasionally get a bit boistrous and i worry one of them may get hurt but on the whole they look out for each other and at the mo are best of friends.

Lots of energy though - need that using up every day or skirmishes will happen.

Hope they stay chums (they are 7 and 5 btw).

LOTS of noise, silliness and cuddles!

Lovely (so far). Mine are 4.9 and 2.9 and they have the most fantastic time playing together - since DS2 was about 2. Ask me again in 12 years - you may get a different answer...

we have a ds 19 months and dh would like another baby, though he wants a girl. Although i am not ready for another baby yet, i see my future with 2 boys in it (hope that made sense!)

In short i would like another boy!

Utterly marvellous - best thing that has ever happened to me

Also - boys get their arguments out the way much quicker than girls do.

ds is great, he's fun, cuddly & loving, soo energetic so having two boys does sound a bit tiring but wonderful too

It is very physical! If bored they wrestle in a playful manner! You have to get used to things like cricket games down the hall. If it rains and they are stuck indoors you feel by about 4pm that they need a long run to get rid of the energy! You also have things like burping competitions. Later on there is a lot of muddy games kit (when I stand on the side lines of a football game in the pouring rain I sometimes think that there would be something to be said for a clean little girl in a ballet dress!). They are very loving.

And they become obsessed with boobies at the age of about 5.

Laugh it off.

Here's something we read an abridged version of at DS2's naming day.
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Did that work? Did it hell. Shall I do it properly this time?

see actually I'm not a total numpty and I previewed the post and everything so this should jolly well work

I have two - ages 8 and 5 (and almost exactly the same age gap as you will have).

When I was pregnant with DS2 I thought he was a girl. When we had our 20 week scan and I found out he was a boy I was momentarily sad, and then put the thought away, to be forgotton.

There's SO MUCH I love about having two boys:

• seeing them together with big brother protecting little one
• at times comparing them, and marvelling at how similar they are, and yet also how different
• the affection, love, and definite strong mother/son relationship
• watching their relationship with DH develop - the rough and tumble, the sports, the ganging up on me

Yes, I find some of it hard - the noise, the mess, the dirt, the shouting, the bizarre games I can only pretend to understand, the millions of little Lego pieces.

But then something happens which just makes my heart melt and any frustrations melt away. Like tonight, after we'd been talking about people going to University after senior school, DS2, snuggled up in bed with me, said, "Mummy, do you HAVE to go to University?" To which I replied, "well no, but why wouldn't you want to?" and he kissed me and said, "because I want to stay with you for ever, and ever and ever..."

Special Magic Lady -

Boys rock

FAAAAAAAAANTASTIC!!!!!

I had 3 sisters...

I love playing with action men, looking at diggers, chasing them round the park.

I would have been gutted if ds2 had been a girl, I didn't want to inflict any of that sister stuff on my precious ds1

Mine only have 16m age gap and I have the best time matching their outfits and knitting them hats and jumpers.

No siree none of that pink frilly twinkly stuff in MY house!!

Although, ladies, you do realise that we will be named and shamed in MIL threads in 20 years or so..... by the hussies that steal our little boys

Yesterday evening dp was drinking a can of beer, being encouraged by ds1 (nearly 4) to burp on purpose..after which dp, ds1 and ds2 (10months) giggled themselves silly..... what is it with males and burps!
but apart from having to get used to burp/fart humour for the next....well forever... 2 boys are great! Loving, cuddly, funny, full of energy, cheeky & I can't imagine having a girl now.

fantastic. Spend all your time climbing trees, burping and blowing raspberries, toilet jokes at the dinner table and nobody who can wee in the toilet
Boys are soooo uncomplicated (no.3 is a girl...)

Brilliant but 3 is better!

My boys are all compleletely different,ds1 into books very funny but a worrier,ds2 gentle animal lover,ds3 exhuberent confident and a right handful!!!

I have two boys 7.5 & 5.5 yrs , best of friends ! Boys are straight forward - they need exercise and love . From seeing my friends daughters I think girls may be a bit more complicated

I've got 2 boys. I love little boys - they are hugely entertaining, noisy, lively, inventive, loving, incorrigible, they fight, but they end up being good pals. Mine were 2 and a half years apart (19 and 16.5 now). I wish I could go back to when they were little.

With that age gap, in 2 years time it will be like having a labrador and a small spaniel.

There will be spills, fights "ARggggghhhhhhhh he bit me!", you will limp from treading on Hotwheels, and everything you own will be broken or stained. You may notice that less tattling seems to go on than in houses containing girls (I was a terrible tattler). If your sofa cushions are removable, they will be removed.

They generally like being near each other (mine do anyway)

When they grow up they drive you mad, but you have to laugh. They use your nice tea towels to polish their car, your nail varnish remover to take sticky marks off the windows and bodywork, they eat all the food, all the time, but they are very loving.

It's lovely. Noisy and very physical, but lovely. Friendships seem to be far simpler affairs than among girls. Life is robust but straightforward.