In 18 days, we have been to DC, Baltimore, Seattle, Japan, Korea, California, and back to North Carolina. 7 of those 18 days were spent traveling and 34 hours total were spent on a plane. But as of today, we are finally home, sweet, home.

Driving to Sacramento
However, we are NEVER taking our little man on an airplane ever again. Or at least until he's 5. I'm not even going to try and pretend I have the perfect child who sleeps on the plane and sits still for hours on end, because I most surely do not. The kid just does not sit still, and he wouldn't sleep on any of the flights because he wanted to move around and see everything that was going on. I cant fault him for being active, curious, and wanting to explore, but we got absolutely zero sleep on any of our flights since we were trying to quell our screaming kid with lungs the size of Texas. 

Yup, we definitely got plenty of stank eye on the flights thanks to our little dude.

10 hours on a cargo plane from Japan to California. Fun times.
The icing on the cake of this whole chaotic adventure is that when we arrived to DC, we discovered Caleb had croup, pharyngitis, and a double ear infection. We spent all night at the ER which resulted in another night of lost sleep. I can't complain about that though. I'm so glad we figured out what was wrong and nipped everything in the bud before it got worse.



Next, after being so excited to finally make it back safely to North Carolina, we opened the door to our house and discovered our house has been infested with hundreds of fleas.

Cue exorcist style vomiting!

So instead of being able to finally relax and get settled in, we went on mad scramble to get all of the flea killers out on the market, and then proceeded to bomb our entire house. Then spend hours cleaning everything up. Which I will then have to repeat all over again tomorrow morning. So why I'm blogging instead of sleeping is beyond me right now.