Well, we're home! (Well, kind of. Santosh is already back in Detroit but we did overlap for a day.) Santosh had the 15 hour drive with Durban on Saturday and I had the 2 and1/2 hour flight with Kieran on Monday. Santosh thinks he had the better deal and I think he was right. Kieran is fine in crowds but 3 hours of staring at the back of people's heads is not quite enough stimulation for him.
We knew he was capable of crying for the entire flight since he had built up quite a bit of stamina crying for 18 hours on the way home from Bangkok. It's been a month but the kid's still got it!
At the end of the flight as we were waiting to exit the plane, Kieran was all smiles and jumping on his seat. Several people said, "NOW you're quiet? Figures!" I didn't blame them at all - I was thinking the same thing. He had bouts of good behavior but they never lasted too long. Everyone was so nice to us. I could see them staring and shaking their heads but they looked sympathetic when I caught their eye.
One guy moved his seat as soon the moment the seat belt light went off. I didn't mind - he had on too much cologne. So I now Kieran's special talents include hair removal (he specializes in pullling out the hair on your head but he's also adept at removing chest hair too according to Santosh and my dad.) His other talent include getting mom and dad lots of space on airplanes (he doesn't realize that 5 minutes of screaming is all it would take to get people to move to the back of the plane. The other 2 hours were not getting us anything.)
Kieran seems to like his new crib but is not liking the exersaucer we have here. He loved the one my mom had. Ours is like a Jeep with a plastic cell phone, keys, a compass, etc. Seems pretty cool to me but he is not thrilled about getting into it. He also doesn't like the pack n play. I'm not sure I get it either. This one has a vibrate function where the whole thing shakes. How is that soothing? It also has playtime music, white noise buttons and nature noises. Today it was stuck on crickets chirping for 15 minutes. Kieran doesn't seem to care about them anyway so we'll probably skip the bonus features for now.
Kieran has stopped grunting between bites of oatmeal. He's a little less demanding but only when it comes to food. He still prefers to be carried all day long and that's a tough thing to do with three staircases in the house.
Not too much else going on.
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