3/28/11: Venture outside on Monday

Lisa and I are now very sleep deprived. The last 2 days are becoming more of a blur.

We did not have dinner ourselves and just fed the kids Friday night. We were not able to grab breakfast at the airport Saturday morning (even though we got to the airport about 7:45 for a 10:25 am flight - there was a long check in line, followed by security and departure lines, then we had to take a train to a different terminal, followed by hiking to a gate toward the end). After we took the kids to the bathroom and changed Carter it was time to board the flight. No time for breakfast, change our remaining HKG dollars back to USD, or to check out the duty free shops. On the plus side they did allow us to board first with the kids, unlike the the 2009 flight from HKG.

We got to bed around midnight our time on Saturday, which was about noon the next day on our body clocks which were still on China time. Except for a short nap Lisa had on the plane, we had both been up for 30 hours straight by then.

We got less sleep the last 2 nights we have been home then we were getting in China. Carter was an intermittent sleeper Saturday night. Sunday night Carter barely slept, April woke up sobbing loudly a few times, and Bennett came into our room the few times I actually fell asleep to wake me up and tell me he could not sleep or was having nightmares. April kept claiming she was not tired and could not sleep (we were not buying this). We both felt more awake Sunday then we did today!

I resisted letting April and Bennett crawl into our bed and eventually got them back to their own beds. Lisa gave up trying to get Carter to sleep in his crib, our bed, or on her in the rocker and headed downstairs with Carter. Lisa brought Carter downstairs to rock him so his crying would not wake everybody up, but Carter figured they were heading downstairs to go to the playroom and happily started banging toys together. I think he finally slept a bit on the couch with her.

The cat was happily purring away under our covers on the bed only to start making the choking noise that means you have 10-20 seconds before he starts puking. Somehow in my stupor I reacted in time to get Sebastian into the bathroom before he threw up.

On to today. Lisa crawled off the couch to start feeding little man Cheerios so he had a good start to the day. April stumbled downstairs to start whining for the day (Princesses are not used to lack of sleep), and we woke up Bennett at 10am which he was not happy about.

We picked up Murphy from his babysitter today. Kim took great care of him and she claims he had very good behavior until a thunderstorm last week. We doubt he was that good, but are happy she still likes him. Murphy spent the afternoon shivering in the car (no, it was not that cold) while we did our BJ's Club and Walmart shopping, and is now sleeping it off on the couch. Hopefully the rest of us will sleep half as well as our cat and dog will tonight.

Our plan was for the kids to do more homework today before heading back to school tomorrow when they were well rested. We will attempt to get them to school tomorrow, but the last set of homework and the well rested parts may not happen.