3 Weeks

Today is our three week anniversary with Max! Although everyone, grown up that is, knows time moves quickly I am still amazed at how fast it is going! He is doing so well, I know I keep saying that but part of me is stunned. I keep waiting for things to change, maybe he will become angry and upset or maybe he will continue to accept his new life and completely settle in or maybe he'll fall somewhere in the middle...who knows but for now we are able to just enjoy life and enjoy him. Don't get me wrong it's still work. He is curious about everything which translates into being into everything. When we tell him "no" he always does whatever one more time maybe more. He still is bad about coming to us when we call him, sometimes even laughing and walking away like it's a big joke, but when we go get him he always complies and never gets upset. I know he understands we are asking him to come to us, I just don't think he realizes he is to do as he is told, we are working on that.

He went to the pediatrician yesterday for his first official check up and he has a long road ahead of him. Today we are getting chest x-rays and blood work, he will lose it on the blood work so we have to wait for daddy to get home and go with us after lunch because I can't hold him. He also has some specialists to go see and it seems quite clear he will need surgery. His left ankle isn't as flexible as his right and he will need PT at least for that as well as for his right arm. We applied to Shriner's this week and are hoping to hear something soon and have a consult this summer. I pray they can help his arm and other ortho issues.

I marvel that he is here. I can't believe that he is sitting on my lap looking at pictures of himself on the computer in the exact same place I have spent the last 31 months looking at pictures and videos of him. To some degree it seems he is making a distinction between his former life and new. When he sees pictures of himself in the orphanage he says "Tan" when he sees pictures of himself with us he says "Max", like they are two separate people, and I guess in some ways they are. His new life in no way resembles his old life, but at some point I suppose he's going to have to reconcile the two.

Here are some pictures of my sweet boy...





He's super cool wearing his big brother's hat!! It seems they have similar fashion taste.