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