1st Day in America!

So Lew enjoyed his first day in America. Except for the whole time change thing, Wallace and Gerber baby peas. He went to bed at 6:30PM last night totally exhausted from the trip. He shouldn't have been because he slept for most of the trip. I went to bed at 7 because I hadn't slept at all on the plane. Anyway, he woke up at 3:30AM ready to play. I congratulated his 9 hour stint with a bottle, but then tried to get him to go back to bed. I had to pat his back for 45 minutes!! He kept wanting to get up and stand in the crib, so I had to hold him down with my hand every now and then. He didn't like that, but eventually he fell back asleep until 7:30AM. What a guy! He did great his first night! We'll see how tonight goes. I, unfortunately couldn't go back to sleep after 3:30 eventhough I was dog tired. I wanted to so badly but couldn't.

At 7:30 I gave him Kix and he tried his first tried and true American baby food: peas. He dry heaved the whole way through the 7 bites he took. At lunch he had rice cereal - we figured he was safe with that. For dinner we tried mixing the rice cereal and the peas. Again, dry heave after dry heave. Todd said, "Seriously? You'll eat formented cabbage with chili sauce and not mushed peas?!" So we decided to put our hot sauce in it...:) Yeah, we actually did it. It didn't help.

He's a big fan of Kix and Audrey is a big fan of the song, "Boom Boom Boom, let me hear you say way-oh. WAY OH!" But she thinks it's "whale." She's singing it in bed right now.

Last night when we arrived home, Audrey was so excited to see Wallace. She let him in and Lew screamed extremely loud. Oh my goodness! I held him and petted Wallace at the same time and told him it was ok. Wallace smelled his bare foot and so his cold nose got on Lew, and I thought Lew was going to crawl up over my shoulder and down my back! We let Wallace back outside. He's also stressed out by baloons. I told him they were just like lanterns, but he thinks I'm lying. So today Audrey put the baloons on Wallace's dog collar (4 of them) - that went over really well. Both dog and kid were equally stressed out over the situation.

Other than that things went really well! Todd is absolutely amazing. He did ALL of the laundry - yup, all of it. I was worthless - the most I've done today is this blog (at teh behest of my friend to let people know how he's adjusting) and I have to go and at least clean up my kitchen. Tomorrow I plan on not taking two naps; the last one being a 3 hour one (Toddy was supposed to wake me up after 1 hour). I plan to wear Lew for his first nap as I clean my house. Then we'll pick up Audrey from school. Put Lew down for his second nap and bathe Audrey. It should be fun. Then I get a little quality time with just Audrey. That's the plan. It may all fall to pieces if I fall asleep. We'll see.