We are home...

After a 6 hour layover in Beijing, missing our flight in Newark and having to spend the night at the crappy airport Ramada Inn, we are home and very glad to be!  When they told us in Beijing the plane was delayed, we nearly melted into a heap...Emma had done horrible on the 3 hour flight from GZ to Beijing as she is increasingly more active and the idea of having to sit is not appealing to her.  However on the 13 hour flight, she slept about 10 hours, but since that flight she is not sleeping more than 5 hours a night and we are very sleep deprived.  Yesterday we took her on a walk to get her to sleep and nearly fell asleep ourselves...we swear, we have actually hallucinated a few times.  At the suggestion of another adoptive mom, we have put a small amount of hot chamomile tea in her bottle this evening and Emma is already sacked out.  Please God, let her sleep 10 hours, she really needs it and so do we.  They say it takes about 2 weeks to get back into the right time zone.
 
Last night she was up and playing from 11:30pm to 3:30am after only 3 hours of sleep, then was awake again at 5:30...Doug took one for the team last night so I could sleep.  I'm literally stumbling around like a drunken sailor the past 48 hours.
 
Today we took a short trip to Target and she did much better in the carseat, but still not happy to be in it.  In Target, she did great riding in the cart and was happy the whole shopping trip.  Her first carseat ride home from the airport, she screamed bloody murder for 30 mins straight and had a diaper explosion from the stress.  Over the next few weeks, we are going to slowly get her used to the carseat before Doug goes back to work.  For now I am sitting in the back with her and we bought her a mirror at Target today that will hopefully help ease me into the front seat.
 
This morning Doug and I tag teamed cleaning up 2 weeks of cat fur around the house and unloading the suitcases.  Thankfully Emma loves to be in the Ergo carrier and she helped me dust, vacuum and fold laundry while Doug ran the vacuum and mopped the floors.  I'm seriosuly considering hiring a house cleaner for a few months...
 
We will post and get pics up when we can, but it's going to be very scattered for now.