HOME!!

we are home! it's so nice to be here. back in our familiar bed, in our lovely neighbourhood, with our lovely neighbours and our sweetie pussy cats- who seem to have forgiven us for running off for so long; they came and slept on our bed the first nite. maybe because alison, house and cat sitter extradinaire looked after them so well. all our lovely books surrounding us, our little garden going feral, the sun shining...
all in all, very good and pleasing.

our last flight left honolulu at midnite and arrived in sydney at 7am tuesday 2nd october. percy was her usual marvellous flyer self. she slept the first five hours and then was up and down for the second five and quite happy the whole time. she was a little upset on the landing (first time), not wanting to suck either breast or dummy. we ended up dribbling a little water from a pop top bottle on her lips and tongue. either she really liked this or really liked her first taste of water but she stopped crying, looked around from more, sucked her lips enthusiastically and stuck out her tongue in a big open mouth for more. it was very cute.
while waiting in the customs queue we counted up the airports percy has been thru. it's a dozen! and usually each one twice- in and out. her passport, i'm sure, has more stamps in it than most adults.

on tuesday and wednesday percy had both paul and i home as well as both sets of grandparents visiting at some time. she enjoyed the attention i'm sure however she is also very clingy to me at the moment. i simply cannot leave the room without her crying out for me. regardless of who she is with, what she is doing. hopefully this won't last long. we are making a point of telling her that we are leaving the room, what we'll be doing and that we'll be coming back. and saying hello when we do come back.
paul went back to work yesterday. at 3pm percy and i went up to the union pub on the invitation of my old mums' group for a welcome home drink (orange juice.) this was super sweet of them and i so appreciated being able to catch up and see the other babies and ask questions.

percy is taking a little while to settle in. which is kind of odd because she took to each new hotel or city with little fuss. maybe we were expecting a shit time, being pleasantly surprised when that didn't happen and here at home are expecting ease and comfort to be the order of the day with minimal effort on our part. percy doesn't know yet that this is the last move; that this place is permanent. she's a little better every day to be honest- very little.

we've also introduced baby rice cereal into her diet! big step. she had 1 teaspoon at lunch and dinner yesterday before i read that it should be only once a day in the begining. oops.

well, got lots to do still. will tell you about percy's trip thru europe and usa as soon as i can.