Home!
(from April 24)
We made it home yesterday afternoon after a pretty uneventful flight from Tokyo. Riley had a little trouble getting to sleep on the plane, but after that slept most of the way while I watched movies. It ended up being a reeeaaalllly long day for all of us with the weird time change (left Japan at 6pm, flew for about 10 hours, arrived at SFO at 11am). Riley went to sleep at 7pm because she was exausted, but then woke up at 10:30 and just could not fall back asleep. Lucky for her, I also couldn’t sleep due to feeling anxious about starting residency and becoming a surgeon and how I am ever going to be able to balance work with spending as much time as possible with my little girl and husband… So we got up and played, had a little midnight snack, did some laundry, then went back to bed at 2am. She then slept all the way through till 1pm!
After eating lunch with her, I brought her to daycare, expecting to have to stay with her for a while till she felt comfortable again. But surprise surprise, she walked in with a big smile on her face! There was 3 other kids there and they seemed happy to see her and walked (crawled) right over. One boy (Camden, who looks like he could be her brother and seems to be a big Riley fan) even gave her a pat on the back and gave her some toys to play with. Kids are so cute.
Riley is at such a fantastic age right now. She loves to explore, but still wants us close by with her. She likes to wrestle on the floor and be tossed around and is small enough still that it’s easy to do. We were outside gardening together this evening (which deserves a post of its own – stay tuned) when she heard a plane overhead and pointed up and said “airpane!” then paused a moment, then said excitedly “Moon!” while pointing at the moon rising in the sky. I had no idea she knew what the moon was! I mean we show it to her in books, but not really outside that often. It was pretty cool. She’s learning so quickly and is very interactive and laughs and giggles so easily and is just such a joy. We have to hold ourselves back from scooping her up and covering her in kisses all the time (well, we try to hold ourselves back – she still gets a lot of kisses).
We tried to keep her up till her normal bedtime this evening, but during dinner she fell asleep in her highchair! Pretty cute. We’ll see how the night goes…