Update

Hello to all! We have been hibernating over the last few days, so I haven't taken the time to update our blog. We arrived back in Lexington on time at 9:55 p.m. on Wednesday night. Just today are we starting to get back to feeling slightly normal. We were hit hard yesterday...as in feeling like we had been hit by a train! If you haven't been through an intense jetlag experience before, there is no way that I know of to explain it. Somewhere between getting hit by a massive flu and the feeling that you can get after pulling three allnighters in a row during college finals. Your entire body aches, you feel clammy and cold one minute, then are sweating bullets the next. Your stomach is upset, you are dizzy and all you want to do is sleep.....like for 12-16 hours. Like I said, that was our yesterday, but today we are feeling MUCH better! Thank you, Jesus!

Nina is doing so great! She is picking up some English, but still has far to go, understandably. Emma has been struggling. She is so jetlagged, and going to school as of Thursday. She has been experiencing more jealousy than I even expected her to experience. Today, it really does seem as if she is feeling better also. There has been no whining or jealous tantrums at all! The girls have loved each othe to death...Emma's absence has allowed both girls to "miss each other" during the day. Today, we all went to pick up Emma, and stayed after school for the book fair. Nina was able to see where she would go to school, and will finally understand where her sister is all day! Emma was proud of her school, and was able to show it off which made her feel very important. A win-win!

We are still battling with Nina's motion sickness issues. I have NEVER had motion sickness (other than from inner ear stuff), so I am NO help whatsoever as far as trying to make her feel better. Roger used to get sick when he was younger, but hasn't in a long time. We've finally stopped turning on movies, letting her read, or play video games while we are in the car, all of which have helped. If anyone has other advice, please let me know. I gave her a 1/2 of a Dramamine pill yesterday, and it put her to sleep before we could ever GET to the car...kind of defeats the purpose!

Here are some pictures not previously posted. We'll try to post a few more times before calling it quits with the blog. Thanks for "listening!"

Kris