Getting over jet lag...

Right now, jet lag is at the forefront of our minds, but we are happy to announce that some of our kids are getting over it.

Two nights ago we could not have said that.  At 1:30am, two nights ago, all of our kids were awake! But generally, Gabriel has been able to sleep through the night from day one.  We have been skipping his daytime naps to make sure that his body doesn't think those are night-time sleeps and to make sure he is extra tired when he goes to bed.  He wakes up every once in a while but we can soothe him back to bed.

Emily is still recovering from her cold and that is making her extra tired on top of getting up with the kids, so she is exhausted enough that she is sleeping through at night as well, although not so much, last night!

Xiao Yu has been sleeping through the night since day two.  Although if he wakes up in the middle of the night, he will crawl right out of bed (he is on a twin mattress on the floor in our room) go to the hallway, stop at the baby gate (we've set up baby gates at the top and bottom of the stairs) and yell out: "Yah yoooo!"  We are not sure what this means exactly, but it's Xiao Yu-ese for "Hello, out there!"  Unbeknowst to him, it's the middle of the night (maybe the pitch blackness would have been a clue?) and no one is downstairs.  We have to carry him back to bed and lay down with him.  After rolling around next to and on top of whoever is laying down, he eventually falls asleep in as little at 5 minutes or as much as 1 hour.

On day two and three, Karina woke up at 1:30am, but has gone back to bed.  Last night, she did not wake up in the middle of the night at all and we think she's back to the Pacific time zone.

Eliana will be the toughest nut to crack, probably, because she is our night owl anyways.  On all nights since we got back, she has woken up at 1:30am and sometimes cannot fall back asleep till 4am (when in China, it is 8pm--her normal bed time).  She is obviously getting sleep deprived, but her body, like Elvin's, has a hard time adjusting to different time zones.  Hopefully she'll turn the corner in the next couple of days...