We're BAAAAACK!!

They let us board the airplane first from Tokyo, Japan to Dallas, Texas. And as soon as we step foot on the plane a sweet southern stewardess looked at Eden and with a thick southern drawl said, "Well, hello Darlin'!" And that's when it became real...we were headed home.


So the flights went smoothly. In fact, so smoothly that we ended up catching an earlier flight on our last leg home and got in about 4 hours earlier than expected. Which only made our total time in travel 42 hours instead of 46! phew!! Eden played her little heart out in the Tokyo airport's baby lounge so she did GREAT on the long 12 hour flight, sleeping for most of it. I mean, would you expect any less from her for her 10th flight?
We're handling our "American transition" pretty well too. We're almost all over jet lag I think. It's taken Eden a little longer than we'd hoped (just a week) but she's finally back to sleeping through the night...as opposed to waking for 5 hours at a time in the middle of the night our first 2 nights back.
We've indulged a lot. Shopping indulgences. Food indulgences. Napping indulgences. and it's been wonderful being surrounded by family again.
We've had our American culture shock moments too. I was so overwhelmed with Hobby Lobby that I ended up not buying anything because it was just too much STUFF to handle. And we came away from Target with only one purchase too...a bottle brush. And we still can't get used to brushing our teeth with sink water. We forgot how convenient that is!!

In other news...Brandon turns 24 today! Happy birthday Brandon!! He has two requests for his birthday. A nice juicy steak for dinner. And a big piece of cake from the bakery that made our wedding cake. :) He's pretty easy to please. This is his first birthday in 5 years to spend in America!

And Eden is officially 8 months old tomorrow. She had a check-up on Monday and the doc said she's developmentally on track as an eleven month old. :) That's my girl. And on our big trip overseas she had yet another language spoken to her: Japanese.
That makes 6...
(in order that they were spoken to her)
1. Thai (birth country)
2. English (duh)
3. Cantonese (hong kong)
4. Chinese (first home)
5. Pakistani (university classmates)
6. Japanese (mamas in Tokyo's airport lounge)
and any day now she's bound to meet a native spanish speaker. :)

So we've had an eventful week!