Yes, the title refers, dear readers, to the return of both the blog and Sarah and Jamie from Cyprus. Things have been a bit willy-nilly but in the coming days I will try to fill in what I can remember of the last month.
Jamie and Sarah returned in good order on a Sunday night two weeks ago. Connor and I spent most of the day at the pool, where he said repeatedly "I want go get Mommy and Jamie now!!!!" Try explaining "later" to a 2 year old who wants his mother. Eventually we got them and this time there was no cold shoulder for Mommy when Connor saw her, just hugs all around. Jamie and Sarah both looked amazingly well given that the had just been traveling for about 20 hours. Jamie was immediately concerned with his presents, since he knew that I would have not one but two Star Wars related gifts, both of which pleased him immensely.
He looked like such a big boy and seemed to speak more clearly than even a month before. He is a very good traveller in fact and had enough energy to help pull his luggage to the car. After speed talking for about 15 minutes, he suddenly fell heavily asleep in the car going home. Now, Jamie has NEVER and I mean never, fallen asleep in the car and allowed us to transfer him into bed, not even as an infant. I really genuinely thought this would be the time since he didn't even wake up as we unloaded Connor and the luggage from the car. But no, as soon as I picked him up, he bounced awake and was instantly energized. Sarah bravely kept going for a little bit but soon had to go to bed. Jamie, on the other hand, actually complained about having to go to bed. Where does the energy come from??!!
And, of course, there was no sleep-in the next day, he was up at 7 and ready to go. On the surface of it, he was quite unaffected by jet-lag. He didn't get sleepy in the afternoon and was as ready to fight bed-time as ever. In fact, though, he was pretty emotionally edgy all week and it was clear that deep down he was tired. Suggest that to him at your own risk.
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