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Home has never felt so good and we are still exhausted. Kaleigh does not have her nights and days straight yet, we are trying something different tonight so hopefully we don't get our 3 to 4 am wake up cry. I know most of you are probably wondering why I am still up at almost 1 am if I am expecting a wake up cry in just a couple of hours but I seem to get a second wind at this time of the night right now. I think part of it is me just wanting to see how she is sleeping. Anyway it was a long trip home but made so wonderful by all of our friends here in Murfreesboro. Mike and Susan met us at the airport with a Welcome home Kaleigh sign and an American flag for her. Kaleigh did good in the car seat until about 10 minutes before we got home but we think part of that was just 30 hours of travel. Then we have an "It's a girl" sign in our front yard and lots of food in the house. Susan, Paula and Beth made sure we had a wonderful dinner (home cooked!!) stuff for sandwiches and snacks and a beautiful ladybug cake. We were so tired at that time I don't think I took it all in until several hours later and about 45 minutes of sleep. I hope everyone knows how much we appreciate everything. The first meeting between Kaleigh and the dogs went much better than expected. Both dogs seemed to like her very well and Abbigail was very gentle and even went in for the first kiss. Malcolm was a little too eager with his kisses and Kaleigh gets frustated. Today Abbigail has been getting a little more aggessive but not in a mean way, she is just trying to figure out how to play with Kaleigh and trust me today Kaleigh has done a lot of squealing and playing so the dogs are a little more unsettled than they were.

As many of you know Kaleigh would not eat very much for us in China and mainly just took the bottle until the last day or so. Well all I can say is that has changed now!!!! She is eating baby food like there is no tomorrow so we should see that 17 pounds go up fast. Today she spent a lot of time bonding with her daddy so mommy stayed back and let daddy do all of the feedings but one. We both love to feed her.

We had several small visits with neighbors and my work yesterday and today and she seems to do good with everyone but we are still keeping her with us to help the attachment and bonding process. She had her first visit to Target this evening and did great until about half way home when she hit her limit was decided she was tired and hungry. Yes we were trying to get her good and tired and to make sure she went to bed with a full tummy hoping she will sleep thru the night.

Anyway here are a few pictures to enjoy and hopefully you will see more later or maybe even see our little sweetie in person. The one of me squatting is her first steps in the USA. There is one of her first kiss from Abbigail and a couple others of her first couple of days here.