WE'RE HOME!!!!!

And Kat did great on the trip!

And, I DID have her confirmation, I had not thrown it out and her name wasn't an issue anywhere.

The first flight was at 2:15 and she hadn't yet napped, so we walked her around the airport and looked at all the other babies (or they came to look at her) and then she was on Dan's lap at the window and was FASCINATED looking out as we were taxiing and taking off. Then she turned, had a few nips off her bottle, and passed out. For the entire 2 hour, 20 minute flight!

We had a tight connection in Houston, considering we had to go through customs and security, again. In Customs, we had to go to a special room to get 'interviewed' and we were sure we'd miss our plane. we were in there maybe 10 minutes and the guy handed us her passport, with her US visa stamped through December and we were on our way.

We then had to pick up our bags, go through the rest of customs, drop our bags back off, find security, so through security and do a 1/2 mile dash through the airport/. But we made it and even had time for a diaper change before boarding the second flight.

Kat struggled more on this leg, as she was now well rested and had been allowed to just sit on the floor to play for about 3 minutes in the customs area. She was fidgety and noisy for a while, until the naval seaman (in the OED- ordinance, explosive device division) next to me began entertaining her. He did a fantastic job and you should have seen the look on her face later when she was looking at him for entertainment and he was asleep. She was crushed. He was the baby whisperer. Eventually, after snarfing down a few bottle and two jars of food (back to back) she finally passed out and stayed that way for another 2 hours or so.

Even when rudely awakened to get off the plane and stuffed in the stroller for the last time for the night she was placid baby. Not fully awake, but not at all whiny. She was happy to just look around at all the activity (the airport was hopping) and observe. Being put in a car seat for the very first time didn't phase her (and of course, within 5 minutes or so, she was out again).

That's the update. I have only one pic from today and I'm too lazy (tired) to upload it. I will tomorrow. Also tomorrow, Kat has to explore her new house, room, life. And meet the idiot twins. Should be interesting.....

And it was 80+ degrees in the house when we got home. I'm confused. Maybe this isn't Seattle? So, I hope that tomorrow is a nice day and we can spend time just hanging out in the yard and letting Kat start to explore her new life. I'm sure there will be pics.

Read y'all soon.