Home Sweet Home!

Finally, all three children under one roof. What a day!
It was hard to get everybody looking at the camera. Chloe loves to have her picture taken and her brothers love to clown around. ;)

So, the flight... We got to the airport in Moscow before 10:00 and had several lines to stand in before getting on our 1:20 flight that sat for an hour before taking off. Here we are at the Moscow airport:

Chloe fell asleep right before we got on the plane and then woke up shortly after. With only a half hour of sleep she was not her usual happy little self. She is so funny when she's crabby. It's like she'll look for something to be sad about. One thing she would do was hand me something and then when I took it, she'd sob like I had snatched it from her. I know she was feeling pretty grouchy, but it was so cute anyway. She was mainly just fussy for the 4 hours we were on that flight. She wasn't really crying, just complaining. I know the guy sitting next to us had to be wondering what he did to deserve the seat he got.

So, we arrived in Frankfurt about an hour late and after all the lines etc. we only had a short time before our flight left. We used that time to feed Chloe and let her run around a little. The Frankfurt airport is super serious about security. They had me put Chloe down and they patted her down and scanned her with that little wand thing. It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Here's one from the Frankfurt airport:

The flight from Frankfurt to Chicago was 9 hours long! We were so lucky to have one of two bassinet seats. Chloe fell asleep shortly after take off and then slept in the bassinet for 2 hours. There was a chatty little girl in the other bassinet next to Chloe and Chloe woke up and was very interested in her. They smiled at each other and touched hands. It was so cute! Chloe was up and happy for the next couple hours, she ate and played in my lap. Then, she hit a wall and was very tired again, over tired in fact. She kept trying to fall asleep but just couldn't. She would twist around in my lap and then twist around in the bassinet. If she tried to get down, Justin would hold his arms out as if he was going to hold her, which he's still not allowed to do if she tired and crabby. This made her whine and stick her hands in her mouth and pretend to sleep on me. We kept up this little routine until she fell asleep about two hours before we landed. Here we are after landing, can you tell she only slept 5 hours total in the previous 24 hours.


We had planned to have the boys meet us at the airport but had told grandma and Grandpa to wait to leave until we called to say we were off the plane. We were told we would have about a 45 minute delay at immigration, but the guy who helped us was so nice and rushed it along so we could get out. So, instead of meeting their sister in the airport, the boys met her in the van. They were all very happy to see each other and then Chloe slept most of the car ride home.

It was so cute to all three together at home. The boys were so excited to bring Chloe toys. I was afraid she would be overwhelmed, but she acted as if she had been expecting that onslaught of toys. She loved her dollies and will hold and hug them. So cute! We tried to get a little food into her, but she wasn't hungry. Then I tried to rock her but she was very squirmy and whiny. I tried to lay her in the crib and she rolled over as if to say, "Thank God, I thought these people were never going to let me sleep in a bed again. Then she slept straight through until almost 9:00. We were up before 5am. It will take me awhile to adjust back to our time zone.