We made it Home!!!!

We got up at 4am Saturday morning in China and Arrived in Newark, NJ at 12:15 am Sunday Morning, but with the 12 hour time difference we actually were traveling 34 hours on 3 different flights and a 2 hour drive home. We went to sleep at 5am and woke back up at 8am, which our bodies think it was 5pm. All very confusing but the bottem line is we are finally home.
Lauren sleep a good portion of the 13 hour flight from China to Chicago so that helped alot. She did not like being in a car seat for the very first time. There are no car seats in China you hold the baby on your lap. The actual traveling part of the trip i will not miss at all. We have decided the 6 -8 hour drive to the Outer Banks will be a cake walk next time, but is the longest trip we have in store for quite a while.

Lauren seems to be adapting quite nicely. She let my sister pick her up at the airport and has played nicely with her cousins Isabella and Caitlin. She also sleep the same time as us and is now napping at 1:30. She is still the happy go lucky girl she was in China and as long as we keep filling her belly that should continue!


Matt could not go to sleep at 5am he finally passed out at 1pm. He was up for almost 48 straight hours.
He had fun on his trip to get his little sister and we could not be happier how he has reacted to this whole thing. He is a great kid and we are lucky to have him.

It feels really good to be home. Our beds felt great. Our family has stocked our fridge.
But best of all is the feeling of having a baby around the house again.Nothing feels as good as having your baby smile as you enter the room. Or getting big belly laughs when you tickle their feet. Or the deep look into your eyes as you feed them a bottle.

This was a grueling 5 year process capped with a very long 2 1/2 week trip, but it was worth every moment of the wait. I can't really put into words all the feelings we are having but to say thank you to what ever force brought Lauren to us.

Thanks to everyone for their kind words and thoughts through this process. It helped alot to have such supportive family and friends. I hope those of you who didnt know my middle name was Elmer will forget this new information. I hope everyone enjoyed the pictures and my babblings and ramblings. It helped us to know we were still connected to the real world and get us through this trip.

We had an amazing once in a lifetime experience, we really enjoyed the trip and getting to see where Lauren came from. I hope everyone gets to meet her soon.

Love,

The Haig's