No time to stand still!

A year ago this week, Dave and I were sunning it up in Cyprus celebrating a friends wedding. We treated ourselves to a nice hotel, glorifying how nice it was to be just us two without any kids around us for the week! If you told me, a year on we would be living in America and expecting our third child i would have laughed in your face!
I've had moments this week of "OMG We're actually here or we're having a real live baby"! All of a sudden the gravity of it all has hit me!
A common question this week, when i've introduced myself to other parents, is how am i finding the transition? I've answered honestly and said i don't know! The house is amazing, the garden for the kids is amazing, the weather is so lovely it has been a total surprise!  But being away from family, friends, having familiar surroundings.. that's what makes it hard. It's still only been around 80 days since we moved over, so it's still really early days and i know it will get easier. I think with the impending birth and the excitement of mum and mick coming over, it's become a little more overwhelming.

 This baby is due in 5 days! Dave is now bored of waiting and trying to tap my stomach like the bottom of a ketchup bottle to get it out.. helpful as always :) The boys are asking questions about how this baby is coming out and what are we going to do if it's actually an elephant.. I've been going to the hospital 3 times a week to have different things done, the doctor i saw last week had me in tears. Telling me that i should have a c-section because of the size of the baby..this baby is due to be around 8lbs. Lucas was 8.13lbs and Ollie was 7.11lbs. Got over that the next day after speaking with dave and deciding that ultimately they are just after a scheduled birth and money! So everything is as it should be, they are keen to induce by the end of next week, which i don't want to happen, but it's out of my hands! As long as it doesn't come before Monday afternoon when mum and mick get here we will be fine!
I'm so excited to see them! Show off the house and enjoy some lay ins whilst they sort all the boys out....lol..sorry mum you're not here for a actual holiday are you?! :)

So after the whole chaos of getting a dog license, i braved it and went to the "local" dog park to get Gizmo used to other dogs again and have a run around off the lead. Needless to say, i probably won't be going back! The park was 20 mins away and the dogs that were in there started on giz so i had to (at 8 months pregnant) jump in and stop them from biting him! I'm sure there will be another day to go on where there won't be problems, but it put me right off!!
Miss taking him to the big park near us in Andover where he could run around a lot more, but shouldn't complain really, he's got a lot more of a garden to play with here!

It's certainly going to be a busy few week, with mum and baby, then the kids finishing for the summer holidays in less than 3 weeks i'm not sure how i'm going to catch a breath! But it's so nice knowing we are actually going to have a summer. The weather is hot now, let alone what it's going to be like come July and August! 10 WEEKS OF KIDS ON HOLIDAY FROM SCHOOL! WITH A NEWBORN BABY!! Ah man!!!!!

Anyhoo, the dishwasher isn't going to load itself and i need to catch some rays before i become a hermit once again!

Love to everyone!
xxx