We arrived home safely on Friday. Eliza did very little sleeping throughout our journey. She became a US citizen in San Francisco when we went through the immigration line before customs. It was anti-climactic for our Eliza, but a sweet moment for mom and dad. She now has dual citizenship as long as relations with China are good.
She spent the first three days waking up at midnight and playing heartily until noon with some fussing and short naps in between. Needless to say our schedule was exactly the same. We started waking her up early from naps and playing the "stay awake" game on day three. Last night she slept through the night!!! Yippee!!!
She met her pediatrician on Tuesday. I would like to say she enjoyed it, but I'm a terrible liar. It was unbelievably traumatic. After the exam a nurse attempted to draw blood. Little Liza has such chubby arms the nurse couldn't find a vein. We will head over to Children's hospital today or tomorrow for the recommended lab work for children adopted internationally. Big fun, I'm sure.
The pediatrician recommended physical and occupational therapy to help with her leg strength, functional use of her arms, and hopefully speed up the process of developmental mile stones such as sitting and pulling up to stand. We hope to start therapies next week. We have successfully transitioned Liza off the formula from China and onto an American version. We initiated stage 1 solids on Wednesday. So far, Eliza is not impressed with spoons or sweet potatoes.
The weather has not been the best so we are limited in our outings. A foot of snow is predicted over the next couple of days...so a few more days of homebound.
2 comments:
An unbelieveably beautiful child. How do you stand it? We look forward to updates and adventures. Hopefully some shared with us in Denton (or Austin,Colorado) ...Monty and Lori
She is beautiful. Lucky YOU!
Lucky GIRL!
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