coming back to VA has been an adjustment

being with family & friends so long was great, but after being in texas for a month, miss haley had a hard time getting used to just the 3 of us in VA!  let's just say she was SPOILED by all the attention she got!  ;-)
first off, she did not enjoy the flight home as much as she enjoyed the flight to houston.  luckily trey was with me so he could help when she was screaming.  as our neighbor stated, she was "that kid"....as in "shut that kid up" !   lol...she did sleep some on the plane, but was pretty fussy for a lot of the flight, regardless of what we did to try to appease her.  we were delayed so that didn't help either....

and much like when we flew to houston, she was jet lagged after the flight back to DC.  so, the first week back home was really a struggle to get her to go to take any sort of nap, or go to bed at night.   fortunately, once she did go to sleep at night, she slept pretty well, but getting her down was the hard part (not till midnight the first 2 nights!).  and she was so restless during the day - like she didn't want to sleep for fear of missing something...and it was sort of like she was scared to be alone.  if we left her side for 2 seconds she screamed.  and, to top it off, i was fighting a cold, and my milk supply plummeted from the cough drops, so that was stressful for both of us too.  it was a pretty rough week, needless to say.

we are still working to get her to take a good nap during the day, as well as to play independently a little.  things have gotten slightly better, but she's still extremely demanding.  it's a good thing i'm still on family leave because i would be a zombie if i had to go to work now!

here's a pic of haley playing in a highchair my x-boss gave us, for 5 seconds before screaming!!  we've been trying to find things she can sit in and be somewhat pacified for a few minutes.  this works well b/c she's high & can see.