Back at the White Swan, Yeah!

Well we made it through our first flight with Olivia, it was supposed to only be 1 hour long, but they boarded a half an hour early and then had mechanical difficulties (just what you want to hear right before take off) so it ended up being 3 hours on the plane, good practice for our next set of flights. Olivia did well, of course she made a few new friends and ate plenty of snacks, she has also started this really fun habit of tearing off your glasses, let me tell you how much fun it is an how much big brother loves it esp. when he is trying to play his gameboy.
This may be a short entry, my little angel is getting her 4th or 5th wind. She only slept about 45 min on the way to the airport. She should have been asleep about2 hours ago but cheerfully refuses. We are in single beds (sam and I) with a toddler mattress bed in between us, which Olivia is in and out of. She is talking right now in full Chinese, probably saying something like “You crazy American Mommy you don’t think I’m actually going to go to sleep anytime soon do you, Ive got way more where this came from!” Well at least she is cheerful, she will chatter away for a few minutes and then bust up laughing, and then stand up hug me, smile, scream “Wo Ai Ni” (I love you) and then give me the cutest toothy grin you ever saw. So I think my only hope, since I have tried the bottle, rocking, putting her in my bed, singing and rubbing her back, is to turn off the lights and go to bed with her. I think part of it maybe she doesn’t want to miss anything and is worried she might if I stay up without her (by the way she has pushed my laptops hibernation button twice since I started this blog, fun stuff).
Hope to be able to write more tomorrow!