Appointments

Today we had a couple of appointments. First, Dylan had an evaluation with Infants and Toddlers. I thought this eval was just a formality -- no way would he qualify for early childhood special education services. However, my little boy refused to cooperate for the testing and now may end up getting services. He was very independent today and didn't want to do anything the teacher asked him, although some of the requests were things he could not do. She was asking him to match colors, stack blocks, pick animals by sound, do puzzles, imitate drawings (dots, lines), pick shapes by name, and give her the correct number of objects. He was able to do some, but not all of these tasks. It was a frustrating time for him and I think after the first or second test he was done and just wanted to play. He has an occupational therapy eval next week which is the real reason we are having Infants and Toddlers evaluate him.

Later, Alana had her first doctor's appointment. It also didn't go as planned. I waited for almost an hour and finally had to tell them that I had to get back home so Victor could get back to work for a meeting. Then they rushed me into the room and looked her over. We decided to wait on the vision and hearing tests until her next appointment in two months because of my time crunch. I had asked to be referred to the Children's Mercy International Adoption clinic, but the doctor acted like that wasn't necessary and she would just refer us to the doctor's needed. I also thought they would do some blood work to see which immunizations she needed, but the doctor wanted to give her all immunizations again. That meant getting four shots today. She screamed during the shots, but quieted down as soon as she got candy. Later in the evening her legs were really sore (even after two doses of pain medicine), so she was whining and wanting to be carried everywhere.

Immediately after the appointment we went to the park to meet up with a fellow CHI family who just adopted an 8-year-old girl from the same orphanage in China. Xin Yi and Yu Jie were excited to see each other! They were a little bashful at first, but quickly warmed up and they started talking in Mandarin and Yu Jie was hugging and holding Alana on her lap by the end of the playdate. It was so incredibly cute to watch. It is amazing to me that these two little girls came from the same area of China and have been adopted by families living less than 10 miles apart within two weeks of each other. It was definitely the highlight of the day seeing them together.

It looks like this weekend will be filled with baseball games. Collin has a game Friday night, team picture Saturday afternoon, game Saturday night, practice Sunday afternoon and game Monday night. Whew! I am exhausted just thinking about it! We'll probably spend the remaining weekend lounging by the pool to make up for all the running around we'll be doing! It will be fun though and he doesn't have many games left after this weekend.