Hour 11 of our 10 hour layover at LAX

22 months - the big ride home

flight to Auckland - Waking up after good sleep on long flight to LA



Hour 3 of 10 on layover in LA

Hour 11 of the 10 waiting for red eye to Baltimore


Waiting for flight to Boston

We made it home! It was a loooong trip back and I still have lots of pictures from NZ that I need to post but I thought that I would try to get some new ones of up our boy for the family that I am sure are missing this monkey. He traveled really well but we were in transit for 30+ hours and not even an adult copes well with that. He got into wearing his own backpack but he had to hold his hands to keep it on.

12 hour flight to LA
10 hour layover in LA (we created a little play area near some windows in the food court)
4.5 hour red eye to Baltimore
1.5 hour layover
1.5 hour flight to Boston
2 hour drive to Windsor.
PHEW!!!

There was only one moment on the full red eye flight to Baltimore on the budget airline that blew hot air, with an exhausted, sweaty toddler splayed out over my legs, my pants wet with sweat because it was that HOT, and extremely grumpy flight attendants that I thought I was going to SCREAM. We laughed, it passed, and 4 days later our boy is almost on the right schedule. It's been a few crazy messed up days and nights but not bad.

We returned to gorgeous warm weather. I love this season in Vermont. The trees are green, the lilacs were still out and it all smells so fresh. There was snow on the ground when we left so this is nice. I got right to getting our little patio garden planted to get it done before it was too late and was feeling pretty good about my progress despite jetlag and then BOOM, I sprain my ankle. I was watering our plants and just turned on my foot the wrong way and now I am unable to do anything. I have had it up and iced for the last 2 days so I am hoping a couple more days of this and the swelling and bruising will be down and I can walk again. So so so terribly inconvenient.
Oh well, moving on. Maybe I can get more NZ pictures up in the next fews days.

Sunset on the Oregon coast

We are back from Oregon now and settling back into home life. Last week, we headed over to the coast with Alicia, Tucker, Sally, and the boys while we left Mike at home recovering from his unplanned but much needed wisdom tooth extraction. It was a perfect moment in time with friends and a happy little boy.

Kites on the Coast

It was the first time I had seen sun and blue sky on the Oregon coast and they took their cool zippy kites to fly. Later, Tucker remarked that the kites looked like they were fighting but Alicia thought they looked as if they were dancing. Perspectives. Our boy got a kick out of the sand, the kites and walking all over the place.