I am a bit behind this weekend, but I'll bring you up-to-date on our lives now!
Day 219 (Friday)
Not a very exciting day today. We picked Florian up a lot earlier than usual, so that was great. The boys as usual were very excited to see him.
I got Florian to take today's picture. For 2 weeks now I have been using the Wii to shape up, and this is me doing my daily workout with the Wii (EA Active). this is me doing "bent over rows with tricep curls" sounds good doesn't it! It is fun and gets me up off of the couch, and I have actually lost a teeny bit of weight (1.8kg) so its helping!

Day 220
Today we finally made it to Augsburg, where Florian works. We drove down in the morning and met Florians land-lady and a friend for a bbq on their roof garden. the boys enjoyed themselves, it was a bit difficult, because it looks out on a courtyard, and their noise echoed around there. And they just didn't understand to keep the noise down. From there it was on to meet Florian's colleagues and their families at the annual garden party. It was great fun. The boys soon lost all shyness and were playing football with some of the dads and there it was no problem for them to run, jump and shout!
Florian has great colleagues and it was lovely to meet them. However the highlight of the day - at least for the boys - was the toilet! It was a pit toilet (Plumpsklo -as they say around here) and the boys had never seen one like this before, they were so funny about it. So Florian even got a picture

Richard might hate me for it one day, but for now he knows nothing about Mummy blogging! ;o)
We drove back the same day and were back just before midnight! the boys slept all the way back!
Day 221
So much for hoping the boys would be tired out this morning and would let us have a lay in...Robert was a bit later up, it was 7.20am. I sent him back to bed, and told him not to come in again until 8am. On the dot he was stood over me telling me what time it was. To keep him from waking Richard I took him downstairs to watch TV. It worked, Richard slept til 10am. So did Florian. Robert watched TV and I read my book (the Host by Stephenie Meyer), I had to hide behind it, as most of the time I seemed to have tears streaming down my face. I think in fact I may have cried too much, cause this evening I have had to put my glasses on and clean my contact lenses in the protein remover - oops! But it was a good read!
This afternoon it was time for the yearly summer procession through the village, accompainied by blueberry anything, we opted for cake.
here are the boys watching one of the floats.

After the parade we went back to our garden with one of Robert's friends and family and had blueberry cake there. (well, the others did, I didn't like it much, but then I am not a cake person!)
Tomorrow is an exciting day - the kids are back at Kindergarden!! I think I deserve a medal for the last two weeks, ooh wait, I got an award whilst I was away in the UK - about time I posted it. Thank you
Bentonflocke, I have thought of this often in the last two weeks, when the kids were acting up. It helped.

I pass it on to all the Mum's who read this! but especially
Leigh and
Dinphy - who both across the miles have the pleasures of Potty Training
CU tomorrow