He's sleeping! HALLELUJAH Lord!!!!

Last night was the first night, since coming home from China, that Matthew has slept through the entire night! He had a WONDERFUL day yesterday. Found out that he loves peas! PEAS, PEAS, PEAS! He loves Walmart too. (Especially where the fishes are!) He had a grilled cheese sandwich, that mom really took off most of the breading because it was too hard for him to breakdown in his mouth by himself. LOVES french fries. Do you know a child who doesn't?????

We got some Chinese documents translated by our adoption agency! THANK YOU Stefani and Charlene for all that you do for us parents!!! So today I will run those to our pediatrician to get Matthew's testing started. He's NOT going to like it, I'm sure. (just the usual.......lead poisoning, parasitic, routine bloodwork, urine, stuff like that. OH, he will have something extra because of his brain development is so much smaller than "normal" kids. (What's normal?!?!?) At the moment, we are to give him LOTS of vitamins/minerals, every juice available to him w/extra vitamins, Calcium, you name it. Matthew loves everything you put in front of him. (I guess when you have had nothing but the same thing over and over again, and given nothing else, OF COURSE you would take new things with no problems or complaints!)

Some new foods he's had in the past 48 hours are: animal crackers, strawberry-banana juice, gummi bears vitamins (will NOT take poly-vi-sol), grilled cheese sandwich, turkey, gravy, ketchup (you'd better give it to him or he will point to it and KEEP pointing to it until you give it to him), maple syrup (sugar-free), french toast sticks, hashbrowns, pancakes, hot dogs (LOVES 'EM!), lemonade, chocolate milk (prefers regular though), lasagna, homemade bread........so yeah, HE LOVES FOOD!

Just found out that our friend and companion in China, Jim (and his son Eric) made it home to the US of A last Friday!!!! AMEN for answered prayers!!!! He's the one family that needed some extra paperwork. We are so thankful everything went through and that they are home where they belong!!!! I know the Mom is QUITE excited about her son! (she couldn't travel, so she is loving on him as you read this!) Congratulations Wendy!!!! ;o)

Keep us in your prayers! LOTS and LOTS of doctor appointments in the next 2 weeks and LOTS of testing to be done. Matthew gets a doppler ultrasound, EKG and something else on Thursday in order to see what's up with his heart murmur. Pray it's just nothing and that he'll grow outta it! PLEASE! Then it's back to the pediatrician on Friday for follow up on his ear infection/weight check. (he's underweight, only in the what was it? 5 to 10 percentile? Something like that. I'm losing track already. I have it written down in his growth book. Pray also that his head development would take off because of the extra vitamins/minerals he's getting!

We love our son! He's such a joy to be with. Gentle, quiet, always inquisitive, wants to know more and more every single day (he points to everything and wants to know names or things). It's already hard to imagine life without our Matthew! God knows we are so blessed!

(PS, no, we haven't found the camera yet, but we KNOW we have it! Have one more suitcase to unpack! GIVE US TIME! :o)