Home is where The Hud is

It was just a casual Saturday night when Jonny and I decided to head off to the Paris Cinema (Carrie Bradshaw's fave) - as one does when living in the heart of Manhattan. Little did we know that less than 5 hours later, pillow in hand, I'd be throwing my door keys at the doorman, so Margot could be fed, and rushing out onto the street to hail a yellow cab to New York Presbyterian Hospital, 68th Street and York Avenue (I had memorized the address, as quite frankly these NY taxi drivers are no London black cabbies)!!! I'll leave that story there and skip to the best bit, this face:

Yep, at 6.44am on Sunday 14th December 2014 - three weeks early - Hudson Leo arrived in the world and was handed to two utterly gobsmacked parents. It has always been a running joke in my family that if I ever gave birth none of them wanted to be in the same country as me, given my rather non-existent pain threshold and the fact I am a complete hypercondriac, so as luck would have it here I was across the pond in NYC - poor Jonny was unable to escape. 

I'm not sure how I imagined this little dude's arrival, in fact I think I tried desperately not to imagine it, but all I can remember now is Jonny's first words: "bloody hell look at the size of his balls" - I'm guessing it's a boy then Jonny! Followed by bursting into tears as I introduced the biddies (and Chops as luck would have it) to their first grand child via FaceTime. It was emotional, amazing and to be honest pretty terrifying but now nearly 12 weeks on, I can't imagine life without my little man and feel so blessed that I am the first one to be greeted by his gorgeous smile each morning - I could however do without the 2am and 5am meets. 

Look at that face. Oh how we've moved on from the first days as a newborn, getting to grips with the burping technique... "blimey, what are you trying to do to me mummy?!" Poor thing, thank goodness Nanny Goat and Granddad Turk arrived a few days later to offer a few words of advice, followed by a helping hand from Nanna and Bumpa Stone, who are already well versed in the art of grand-parenting.

So now our visitors have gone, Margot is back in her orthopaedic dog bed, Hudson even has a new girlfriend Holly, and life is getting back to normal - well a whole new normal that is - and I'm loving every second with my boys. 

We've also made the hard but exciting decision to move back to the UK in September - it was either that or Rita was moving out here and Margot says there is simply just not enough room in her bed! No, seriously we have had the most amazing experience in NYC but all great things have to come to end and our time is definitely up. Yet while we are excited to introduce you all to Hudson and settle back into life at home, we have a summer of fun, fun, fun, planned here before we depart, so watch this space!!! Actually, manage your expectations just a little as we do have a bubba now ;-).

L xxx