On our way home... at last!!!

We're finally going to bed for the last time here in India, and we are so excited to be coming home. It's so hard for everything to feel real while living in a hotel, ordering room service for every meal (we had a little screaming/puking incident early on while eating out that made us a little restaurant-shy even though it was just a one time thing). We did brave McDonald's a few times, but each time we'd have to give Raina a serious talk about how bad it was for us and that back in the U.S. we really don't eat there every other day. The amazing thing is the innate love for french fries that I am now convinced children must be born with. Before we could get Raina to eat much else, she had no problems downing a handful of fries - and then dancing for joy in the window.



When we're out and about Raina is basically attached to me at the hip. It's actually more at my stomach, because she's in the Snugli, which is great, and I'll most likely be wearing when I go back to work because it's become part of my body. I'm thinking it will be a really handy way to carry books around the library, so I'm kind of excited about it.

So, anyway, we are ready to come home and get back to real life - at least as real as it can seem with a super energetic little toddler that is close to taking off on her own at a sprint. Tami and I are more into the slow, long distance running, but at this point I think we better start focusing on speed. Of course, after many, many laps from the Door (touch with both hands) down the hall past the bed (with an optional pat pat pat on the bed) around the corner of the bed and then beat on the chair (left, right, left, right, left) then back to the Door (until we discovered there's a little girl that looks just like Raina living in the mirror in the hall, then there was the mandatory kiss for her), we're glad we came in pretty good shape.


We fly out in the morning, so this will be our last post from India. We'll let everyone know we're home safe and sound sometime this weekend. It's been really fun to hear from all of you in the comments, and we'll talk to some of you soon!!