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Wow, so the kids went to bed at 9:30ish last night and slept through until 6. I got to watch ER with Mom while I sorted through the 2 week’s worth of mail. Then I crawled into bed and watched a 1/2 hour of Sex in the City before dozing off. It was like normal! How sweet. The kids didn’t make it to their own rooms, but instead slept on mattresses on my floor. I’m pretty happy with that. We’ll deal with the stress of their own rooms in awhile. I was happy to have my bed to myself (until 3 or so, when Noelle did join me). I may actually just put Nicky in Noelle’s room for awhile. I didn’t want set it up that way from the beginning, because I needed to be sure he wouldn’t hurt her, to be absolutely honest. Six years is a lot of life to live and while I had not heard anything to indicate he’d been abused at all, one never knows. However, he is really very good with her. He clearly took care of others in the orphanage.

Many thanks to Tom, Yiqing and Jessie … for all their hard work in translating letters to Nicky and helping with the identifier labels and for coming over to talk with Nicky last night and play with Noelle. You all kept the kids awake till 9:00, yeah!!! We also learned from Yiqing that Nick doesn’t have any real worries, though he has been cold (that was his big worry about school next week, what he’d do if he was cold — Yiqing did have to explain it’d be all day, not just in the mornings). She also explained to him that we’d be going to the doctors next week.

I just started a to do list for the next week or so, so I’m definitely feeling more competent today, already. I’m hopeful that last night’s full sleep will set the tone for the next week or so and we’ll be over the big jet lag hump. I’m hoping to clean up the last of the China photos and some of the photos since “home” today.

Noelle and Nicky really are doing very well together.  Noelle is already playing better.  She will sit in a room with Nicky, a room I am not in, and play with or along side him.  Previously, she’d be in my face the whole time — not just in the same room as me, but in my face.

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