It is 3:15am and both of the boys are up and very active! Daniel is mad at Evan because he is playing with his new Spider Man stickers that he received recently as a gift. I told him that he wouldn't have them if they weren't sitting out and suggested that he put them away. He started to pick them up and has realized that brother is eating them. Daniel is prying them out of Evan's hands while lecturing him that they are "not to eat". Ah, good times! Obviously, I am still trying to get them on a schedule and haven't quite figured it out yet.
We are home and loving it! Our trip was fantastic but there is nothing like coming home again. We arrived at the Oklahoma City airport about 10:30pm on Monday, May 31st. It was literally the longest day ever and when we travel internationally again, we will try to break it up. The exhaustion was overwhelming. Daniel and Evan did a great job and were good on all of the flights. After a 6 hour delay in the Denver airport we were able to get a little sleep on the flight to OKC. Before we landed the flight attendants asked us about Evan and when they found out that he was newly adopted, they were excited. They even brought us a bottle of red wine to enjoy later as a gift. We landed and headed to baggage claim and found four friends waiting to greet us. I was so touched that they would come out to the airport at 10:30pm on a holiday (or any day) to welcome us home. They were a wonderful sight for our sore eyes. I had put the bottle
of wine, that was in a plastic bag, on the handle of Daniel's stroller and with the excitement of seeing our friends I forgot about it. When Daniel stood up the stroller fell backward and the bottle broke. The red wine made a big mess and as we started to clean it up, the flight attendant who gifted us the bottle walked by. I felt so bad.
After we took some pictures and gathered our luggage we boarded the shuttle bus to our car. While we were looking for our car, Brian asked me about the car keys. I quickly remembered that they were packed in the suitcase and I couldn't remember which suitcase (we had five). Our plan was to pack it in Guangzhou and then get them out of the suitcase when we left for Hong Kong, good plan if I would have remembered it. Anyway, we had the shuttle bus driver put our luggage behind the car and I started looking while Brian put the boys into their car seats. I just knew they weren't in our biggest piece of luggage so I starting opening one suitcase at a time. It was a warm night and since it was late, no one was around which was good since I had our personal items laying in the middle of the parking lot. I had a little bit of light to see. It took me over 5 minutes to locate them and they were in the piece of luggage that I knew they
definitely were not in. So much for my good memory. I think everyone fell asleep about 3am and we slept most of the following day.
Evan is adjusting well, except for the time change. He loves our dogs and especially the cats. He was petting our cat, Simon, yesterday by patting him hard and fast. I showed him how to do it gently. He gets a little scared of the dogs from time to time but seems to enjoy them as well. I took them to doctor's ofice yesterday by myself and we all did well. I also braved the grocery store and survived that too. Maybe I can do this, we'll see.
