Finally made it to VA!

Greetings from Virginia! Bella and i finally made it here last Thursday evening after an almost 20 hour flight! Yup, you read correctly - almost 20 hours! The flight from Rome to Dulles was delayed for an additional 4 hours (on top of our 3 hour layover there), which means that we were at the Rome airport for over 7 hours! Needless to say, it was a very long flight, but i could not be more proud of our little princess. She did so good on the flight. Thank goodness i brought plenty of toys and snacks to keep her entertained :)

So as most of you who are parents already know, babies around Bella's age go through some sort of stranger anxiety. It seems that Bella has a MAJOR case of stranger anxiety, so if anybody even just looks at her, she starts screaming her head off. This was so bad when we got to my parents house that she even made my dad cry because she didn't want him around her at all. My poor dad, all he wanted to do was to hold her and hug her and here's Bella crying and screaming. I felt so bad but she finally warmed up to him and now they're like best buddies. She loves to be chased around by him! She also enjoys being outside, which hasn't been good, since it has been over 100 since we got here! Basically, as my husband likes to put it, it's been Africa hot :) Today it wasn't too bad, so i went over to my sister-in-law Michelle's house and we took Bella and our godson Justin to the playground for a little bit. Maybe later on this week, we'll take them to the pool.

Anyway, we just wanted to let everyone know that we made it safely to VA and we'll be hanging out here all summer. These are a few pictures from our trip so far (i love the suitcase one and the one of her kissing her stuffed doggie) I think she really misses Coby, as do I, and of course we are both also missing Brian (daddy) like crazy, but hopefully we'll see him next month!