Hubby and I were DREADING this HK trip for months. We were worried that the kids wouldn't adjust well to the time difference, the hot weather and the fact we will have to re-sleep train just freaked us out. We just finished sleep training with Nate (no more night feeds!) a week or two before the trip and we had to do that again?? Well, turned out what we worried about...all came true!! Arrggghhh....
Nate completely happy cruising around our departure gate:
Ali completely mesmerized with the humongous airplane. She stared at it for a looooong time and kept on asking when we could board.
Por por is on the same flight with us and she was trying to show Ali all the different planes.
A very content toddler, but grandma already looked kind of defeated. LOL.
I managed to smile still. Well, that's before take-off....right...
Nate was just too excited about this whole plane experience. It turned out the bassinet was a bit too small. He is a skinny baby, but he is too long for it. So what happened you think? Turned out Nate loved mommy a lot. Yup, por por was able to give me breaks from time to time when we were heading to HK, but on our way back, I was holding him 12 hours SOLID. No joke. My arms were asleep and my back and shoulders were aching for a few days.
Nate: "Nap? Sleep? What's that? Time to play, mommy!"
Poor little Ali was SOOOO exhausted but she was so uncomfortable that she couldn't sleep. She tried sleeping on the floor, then a minute later, climbed onto the seats (por por and I took turn sitting somewhere else with Nate), then back to the floor. She kept on doing that for a long time. Ali got really frustrated and upset and after an hour of struggle, she finally fell asleep. She was able to sleep for 6 hours on the entire flight. We think that Ali could have slept longer if the seat belt sign wasn't on (we had to bring her back to her seat, poor Ali!)
My little angel finally got a little bit of rest. The silly girl insisted to sleep with her luggage. Yup, that's my girl.
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