5 AM! Yeah right!

So I don't know why the blog shows I updated at 5 but truly it was 7:30. Jimmy slept late and he had his morning bottle on my lap while I typed. I was not up at 5 nor would I want to be :)

The doctor was a little traumatic but it went fine and he is truly a trooper. I knew when we hooked up with this program it would be helpful but even then I didn't realize how comprehensive it would be. It's intense. They do not mess around!

We met with two physicians this morning who did a complete physical. They looked at his tongue and recommended we see an ear, nose and throat specialist on Monday. Before looking at it the one physician said he does not usually recommend the surgery but he passed us on after he saw how connected it truly was. I am still amazed at how much he manages to use it. If you didn't know he could fool you.

From there we met with a dietician who helped us review what he was eating. She said it all sounded great to her. I need to make sure he gets enough grain. That is the one area we are probably not doing as much as we should. She also said to go ahead and switch him to whole milk, which I didn't expect. I was afraid of running out of formula so of course I just bought another can... Oh well!

From the dietician we met with a physical therapist. She reviewed his movement and said his finger use might be slightly delayed but nothing extreme. And she would like us to put him on the floor as much as possible. Other than that he was gang buster. She said they typically expect kids from Guatemala to be much further behind since they are held all the time... Not our Jimmy though! He is a power house!

He received a TB test and had blood drawn. Brian took him in for the blood work. I didn't think I could handle it after we sat in the waiting room listening to the kids wail in the back. The tech told Brian he was her best Dad that day. And they found a vein on the first try. He hated it and screamed but it was over fairly quickly.

While we were sitting in the waiting room waiting on the Labs we saw these cute boys. They were also getting Lab work done. The parents asked how old Jimmy was and Brian told them he was 11 months and we had adopted. They adopted too. They went through India and had only been home with their TWO boys for 6 days! Too cute. They did not have as easy of a time with the blood work. Poor little guys were quite a bit upset.

We go to the main campus of children's on Monday. We drop off stool samples, have his TB test reviewed and get a hearing test done. That appointment will be much shorter. The one today was almost three hours long! Poor Jimmy feel asleep in the car on the way home and slept through lunch. My friend Julie stopped by and we woke him up. He was still a little tired but he held on like a champ. Then Aunt Traci and Uncle Jason came over and stayed for dinner. Very fun!

Today he isn't sleeping the best. Doctor's or teeth? I don't really know. But the nice thing is that once I put him down he cried but he stayed in his crib. I rubbed his back and the two times he has woken he has gotten himself back to sleep! Yea!

We have decided that we will do the bottle in the rocker and then put him in bed. From there if he cries we will comfort but not take him out of the crib. Hopefully this will work as smoothly as it did tonight! He is a good sleeper so we just have to get through the transition and I think we will be cool. He doesn't love me rocking him anymore anyway!

See everyone soon!