Sweet Homecoming

Today was our first full day as a family at our home in America. But first we must talk about our homecoming! Chelsea met us in Dallas the night before and Peter was so excited to see her! And so were we! We visited for awhile, but apparently to loud for some of the other residents at the hotel. Oh well. While there, I noticed that Andrew was a little hot. He had not been feeling well but I chalked it up to jet lag. I took his temperature and it was 102! Yikes. Everyone settled down and we finally slept. We slept so hard that we didn't wake up until housekeeping knocked on our door at 10:30! Yikes again! We had 30 minutes to get ready and we did it! We headed home and grabbed some Sonic on the way home. I could already tell a difference on how I felt after eating American food. :-/ I hadn't earned this food! As we pulled into our driveway we were greeted by so many family and friends with welcome home signs and many in Chinese!!! What a treat! We hopped out and introduced Peter around. We were thrilled that there were 6 other Chinese (4 that spoke the language!) Americans here. I think it helped Peter some also. We visited with everyone then came into the house where we were greeted with more surprises. We had 2 dinners, a cake, candy, balloons, streamers, and signs all over our kitchen!! What a blessing! Then to Peter's (and Andrew's) room. WOW!! The boy has more clothes than Andrew and Abi! Our families outdid themselves with buying him clothes and toys. He was so excited. He kept saying, "WOW!, Wow!" Everyone left and Eric (who was also not well) and Andrew went to bed. Abi and I showed Peter around and he wandered around the house for the rest of the evening. He was in astonishment over everything; the ice maker on the door, the computers, the dogs, the rabbits, the games, the books, the rooms, the shower, everything! It was so fun to watch. We offered him dinner and he refused both because he said the soup was hot (it wasn't) and the pulled pork would make him fat. What?! Well Abi and I grabbed some yummy Nanny soup and watched some MeTV. Peter finally came around and decided on the pulled pork after seeing the picture on the bread that looked like a hamburger. (Thank you Laura!) Taisha came to visit for awhile and it was great to see her! We missed her and D. Peter did well with her which we were happy about. We unpacked 4 suitcases out of seven and headed to bed feeling very blessed!