Home at Last!

Hi, everyone! Yes, we are home at last. It's been 5 days since our return, so I'll, first, update you on our flight home. It was pretty much uneventful. We had a stop off at Narita airport in Japan. Angeline handled it fairly well. She had her own seat and the passenger next to us, who happened to be traveling with a 5 week old baby, was nice enough to move so that we had the whole row to ourselves. She saw seats further up front that allowed her more room, also. Thank goodness, Angeline didn't fuss much.

Since coming home, though, her fussiness has escalated. I think it is because Susan has been meeting her needs 24/7, that she was become even more clingy. It's pretty much the same before returning home, whereby, Susan would walk away a few feet and she would cry. Now, that she's home and not exposed to anyone, but her mom, she has become more demanding. She's not fussy around William, probably, because she doesn't see him as much in the day, when he works. Susan has decided she'll start taking her out more regularly to meet other people. She seems to do better when she's been out and about.

Angeline had a surprise welcome home party from William's mom on Saturday. She got to meet her grandparents, uncles, aunts and little cousin, who's just 7 months younger than her. They'll probably have a great time playing together.















Angeline has achieved quite a few milestones these past few days. Since returning home, she has learned to say "mama" and just today "baba". Not for lack of trying though. She thought she was saying "baba" when she was still saying "mama". You can see, though, that she's trying hard to articulate correctly, but the wrong sound keeps coming out. She's, also, learned to crawl, walk with mom's aide, take out her plastic stacking cups one-by-one and, again, today, learned to put them in a pail, wave "bye bye", and wave "hello" on cue. Mommy and Daddy are very pleased. Now, if we can just get her to sleep in her crib and not cling so much, then, she and we, will really have achieved something!