Welcomed by the tulips!
It's great to be home! We were welcomed by the tulips. We planted tulips in 2005 thinking they would come up March 2006, when we would bring home our baby. The tulips did come up last year and reminded us that our baby was probably born but was not with us yet. One year later, March 29, 2007, we arrived home just in time to see our beautiful red and purple tulips. The small things in life are special blessings from God.
As for the details of our trip, luggage was out by our room door before 6 AM on Thursday morning, March 29 and we left the hotel at 7 AM. We had a sweet ride to the airport as we knew this would be our last few moments with our group. The day before, one of our families left early and that was our warmup for all of us as we knew we would soon go our separate ways. Once at the airport, some of the group were flying to Hong Kong then San Francisco and the rest of us were flying to Beijing and then to Chicago.
Hudson cried the first flight to Beijing, a three hour flight. We were not sure what was going to happen on the 12 hour flight since the three hour one was not good. Once on the plane from Beijing to Chicago, he played and laughed and talked and did everything to stay awake. Once asleep, he slept six hours. We got some sleep during that time but not good sleep as it's challenging to sleep basically sitting up. We were so blessed to get bulkhead seating so we made a little bed for Hudson on the floor. It was so wonderful to hit US soil. We left Beijing at 5:30 and arrived in Chicago about 12 hours later. God makes life so fun. We met our friends at the airport in Chicago. They flew from Guangzhou to Shanghai and then to Chicago. We rode the plane together all the way home with our new babies, Isabella and Hudson.
It was so exciting to get off of the plane and see all the people in the window of the airport. Many friends were there to greet and welcome our Hudson and little Isabella. The first site of seeing Zachary, Joel B. and Alaina's smiles will always be etched in my memory. Hudson was not sure of all these people wanting to hold him and speaking English. He had the same expression on his face as he did the first 56 hours of us having him. It wasn't long that he was smiling. He instantly liked the boys and he laughs at Alaina.
We are slowly recovering. The first night, Hudson woke up at 6 AM after we had just gone to bed at 3 AM. We napped some throughout the day and limited Hudson's naps. Hudson loved going outside. It was such a beautiful spring day. It's so wonderful to come home to Spring. The flowers are growing and starting to look like spring. My mom put away my collection of snowmen and did some spring cleaning while we were gone. The second night, Hudson slept 13 hours and we had to wake him. He crawls everywhere and interested in everything. He likes his squeaky shoes and has started walking. He takes about 4 steps and falls into my arms.
We are very tired but life is good. We are so happy to be home as a family of seven. Last night was our first dinner together as a family. Our table is very full and very precious.
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