Addicted to Cookie dough ice cream!!!!

Nearly four weeks into the summer holidays and another six to go! The shops are full of back to school material and the adverts on the radio brag about how little they have left?! I don't know what i was worrying about in the UK with six week of holidays, because ten weeks is a lot more stress!!!
The boys are doing ok, they are doing their usual daily bicker and then playing well together! I think i'm the one who's struggling to keep them constantly entertained!

I finally got around to getting some photos printed of friends and family and placing them in frames. It made me really emotional though! Today i have caught up with a few friends as i'm feeling a little lonely without my regular crew, and i'm missing mum and mick being here! The reality of not being there for hen do's or weddings, or even just going around to see friends has hit us a little this week. As good as facebook and facetime is for contacting people, it's not the same. The boys have been talking loads about their friends in the UK too, a little song they were singing in the car today about who is going to marry who, and they reeled off all the girls names from their school in Andover. I think Ollie is starting to forget certain people, but Lucas can remember them all.

The weather here has started to get really hot, it went up to 84 today, and is meant to be getting warmer. It's the humidity that hits you and makes you want to stay inside! Nice to have a decent tan, but really hard to keep the boys cool enough! All i can say is thank goodness for the countless amounts of ice cream shops around- especially the cookie dough flavour.. that's now impossible to turn away from!

At the weekend we went to a founders fair in our local town, it was really sweet and felt a lot nicer than the normal fairs we went to in the UK. Boys went swimming in the lake again today, there were some baby ducks in the water this time, and of course the boys just kept on chasing them!

Dave and i have both been on a diet for the last few weeks, we finally caved into some carbs the other night and had a really nice pizza!! I wanted to sign up for a personal trainer again, as it worked so well last time, but they want $90 per hour! So having to look elsewhere! Not quite the same money i paid with my lovely gym friend back home!!

Finlay is doing well, he is soooo long! He has found his temper a little more now and is a lot more awake during the day. In some of the faces he pulls, it reminds me of Lucas as a baby! Will be interesting to see how he looks later on!

Apart from that, we are all good. We have got daves parents out from next week so that will be helpful, and i'm soo looking forward to the treats they are bringing with them!! Sod the diet, give me the galaxy and strawberry laces!! :)

Anyhoo, dinner won't cook itself!

Cheerio!!
xxx

Back to reality with a bump!

This week has been tough!! Not only did we have to say goodbye to Mm and Mick, but it was the first week Dave had to be back in the office every day!
The boys and i had gone from having three extra adults around the house to help, to it just being me!!
What made it worse was that the lovely neighbours who Lucas and Ollie play with constantly had gone on holiday for the week!!
So the boys were bored and restless, every five minutes they kept asking me for things, on top of that Finlay found his lungs a lot more and became very restless!!
Needless to say, it was thoroughly relieving to have Dave off for independence day! He is off for the rest of next week too so it is a lot less pressure to deal with.

The independence parade we went to yesterday was nice, i really like the town where we saw it. Amazing to see how patriotic the Americans are. We went to a BBQ afterwards and we were asked if we had anything similar. The only thing i could compare it to was St Georges' day, but without a parade or without a "holiday". I mentioned about the poppy day and how we have parades for that. But they didn't understand why we didn't celebrate our country! I explained the only real time the flags come out is when the national team play football, and then quickly take them down again after we lose!
They asked me if England would ever get rid of the royal family. Even Lucas' friend doesn't believe there is a queen. She thinks the president is the leader of the world!

The weather is lovely, hot and humid. The boys including Dave have got a nice tan. It's quite hard keeping Finlay cool whilst he is in the pushchair. Or should i say stroller!
Gizmo has started crying at night, so we have put him in with Lucas and both seem content! Not sure how long that will last though!

Finlay is doing well, he is eating loads and is so long! He's more aware of things and starting to stay awake more during the day. It's been quite hard to deal with the crying every time i leave the room or when his dummy comes out, so i've started the tough love and leaving him for a few minutes! It was especially hard when the Lucas and Ollie wanted something from me, and i was dealing with Finn! They seem to be adjusting though!

I've started doing my "diet" and exercise thing again, i'm surprised as i've not put on as much as i thought i would. So it will hopefully come off quicker. Although being surrounded by dunkin donuts and nachos isn't helping! I've persuaded Dave to do a little with me aswell, so will see who looses it first! I enjoyed doing a few runs this week, Lucas even joined me for part of it and that was really nice.

All in all, everything is fine! Missing my weekly catch ups with my friends from the UK! But am loving my lovely galaxy chocolate being sent to me! So thankyou to everyone that has sent that! I have to put it in the fridge for a while now though as its all melted after being transported for 2 weeks!! :)

Anyway much love! Time is up!!

xx