First Few Days Home

Bo's first bread experience, notice how he likes to drink his milk. He's training so he can hang out with Uncle Donald someday.

At dinner in Newark airport, he is drawing in the book Uncle Dick and Aunt Diane got him, used it on the plane as well.

Right after we got to Newark and went through customs, I'm carrying two carry-on bags, Bo's backpack, 2 jackets, and Bo!

We are back home and finally starting to settle into a routine again. Bo did exceptionally well on the trip, considering it was about 30 hours from door to door. We were met in Newark by my Uncle Dick, who was able to get an escort pass to walk us to our gate and get a quick bite to eat with. I'll attach a photo of Bo and I that Uncle D took. Bo looks great because he slept for 8 hours on the flight. I look a bit more like we've been on the road for 26 hours and I've only slept about one hour on the plane. Looking at the dark circles under my eyes the last few days I feel like I have aged 10 years in a month. Hopefully people will stop thinking I am too young to be Bo's mommy and that I am his nanny. I'm freaking 32 already!

Thursday Ryan stayed home and we began our time adjustment. My first trip out of the house was to the supermarket. It felt really weird to drive a car again. I bought a bunch of things that I will try to get Bo to eat and a few things that I know he will eat (ramen, eggs, potato chips). We made a quick trip over to Highland Road Park before dinner so Bo could run around a bit and play on the jungle gym. When we got home I made pasta and grilled chicken for dinner. Bo had a meltdown right as we were starting dinner because I wanted him to drink milk and not juice. So we sat down for our lovely "family dinner" with a screaming kid on my lap. He settled down in time to devour a plate of pasta and even drink some of the milk. Afterwards I realized he has probably never had to sit and eat as a family before and I have basically been his short-order chef the past few weeks so I threw on him not getting to choose his food and having to sit at the table and not getting to drink what he wanted all at the same time. The poor kid was confused! After dinner it was more Wii (Mario Kart), then bathtime and Wall-E and then Ryan played with him in his room until he fell asleep around midnight. I got to sleep in my own bed for the first time in over 3 weeks and it was great!

Friday (today) Ryan went to school. I let Bo sleep until about 8:45 then carried him out into the living room and got him to wake up so I could inject him and get him to eat. After breakfast he wanted to go outside in the car and since I didn't want him to think that all car trips end at the park we went to Whole Foods instead. They had one of those carts with the little car on the front so I got Bo to ride in there and I pushed him around. Those things are a pain to maneuver, it's like driving a Mack truck but it did the trick in keeping Bo entertained enough that he wasn't a) making me carry him or b) dragging me towards the door or c) grabbing everything in sight. When we got home he opened up the fridge and started eating cold pasta right out of the Tupperwear. I pried it out of his hands long enough to heat it up a bit and he eventually ate quite a bit. We had an appointment with the pediatrician at 1 and she agreed that he is in very good health, expect for the diabetes. He's around 60% weight and 75% height on the US growth charts for his age. We didn't give him any shots or draw any blood at the doctor today because she wanted to establish a relationship between them first and thought he didn't need the extra trauma this week. I totally agree. He goes to the endocrinologist for the first time next week and she will definitely want to draw some labs so we'll just combine them then. Bo was very good at the doctor's office, playing with the Legos I brought for him while Dr. Harris and I talked. At the end of the appt. she said that he was much better at independent play than a lot of the kids she sees. Maybe my wild man isn't so poorly behaved after all! Tonight we decided on a low key dinner (Bo ate ramen and Ryan and I just grazed on snacks) then we went to Westdale where Ryan is doing his student teaching for their talent show. A bunch of his 4th graders came over to see Bo and some of the faculty were there too so it was fun. Bo was a little shy about all the kids coming up to him saying "Ni hao, Bo" but overall he did very well, even sitting on our laps and watching a few of the acts and clapping loudly when they finished. He fell asleep in the car on the way there and on the way back so I am very glad I got a good booster seat. Those head support things are going to get used a lot! Tomorrow we will try going to Ryan's softball practice and a trip to Target for a few odds and ends. One item I desperately need is some kids CDs for the car. I may go to the library tomorrow afternoon and rent a few so I can just burn them. We need to pick up on the ABCs and simple English so why not use car trips as study time as well? I certainly don't want his first words to be learned from Notorious B.I.G.! Well, peace out... I'm off to bed :)