Home at last!

A thunder storm passed through around midnight last night. It woke Olivia and me, and my mom rushed in to close the windows. Olivia wanted a bottle of course, but was still up a couple times after that within a two-hour span. Needless to say, I didn't sleep very well. Olivia was up and ready to go by 6:45. At nine, I tried to get her to nap, but she didn't sleep - she didn't fuss for a long time, just talked. I finally got her up so she could run around outside before our long day of travel. We left for the airport around 11:15. It took forever to check in and we barely made it on the overbooked plane - thankfully a few people agreed to be "bumped" or else we wouldn't have gotten seats. We boarded a bit late due to the seat shuffle, and then had to wait on the runway for over 30 minutes to wait our turn to take off. The hour-long flight to Atlanta was fine, though a little bumpy - Olivia didn't mind, but I did. She fell asleep just as we were descending so she got about a 15 minute nap. In Atlanta, we got lunch - Pie had yogurt parfait and we ate pizza. Our flight to Minneapolis was very full and Olivia was very restless. She wasn't naughty, but she needed a lot of entertaining. We used several more of the gifts I had brought along for her to unwrap. The only time she cried during the flight was when I went to give her a drink of water from her water bottle, but it "exploded" because of the pressure change. It sprayed all over my mom, who was holding Pie, and even got the lady behind us. Olivia burst into tears because of our startled reaction. We were thrilled that we landed about 5 minutes early, BUT we couldn't get off the plane because our gate was still in use. We ended up sitting on the place for another 20 minutes. Olivia really was a champ, yet again. She was very anxious to see Daddy, who picked us up. He got lots of hugs and kisses from her. He commented on how old she looked! She was super excited when she saw Grandpa, too. We got home just before 8 and I couldn't let her go to bed without a bath. She ate some oatmeal during her bath and went to bed at 8:30 (90 minutes after regular bedtime minus a nap and plus and early wake-up this morning -- whew!) She just woke up during a major coughing fit. I'm hoping she can get a very restful night of sleep. We ALL need it!