We are amazed, every single day by our Matthew!

Yesterday we got our Chinese documents translated from our adoption agency (Children's House International) with the help of Stefani and Charlene, so I ran them up to our pediatrician's office with Matthew in tow. He LOVES to go "bye-bye". He gets his own coat/hat and shoes! It's so cute! So went up to the office, the doctor looked over his vaccines and decided to order all his tithers/tests. OH MY GOSH! 22 tests all-in-all. The hospital had to actually call the pediatrician's office to make sure this is what she wanted. (and it was) Then came the drawing of blood! I was expecting the worst, because of Rebecca. She tossed, turned, threw her arms wailing every which way, wiggled out of the hands of 3 people......NOT Matthew. He whimpered the first stick. They ended up blowing his little vein. (Poor thing. No discoloration though.) Then the more experienced philbotamist tried. (he was holding Matthew's arm just in case he got aggressive. He ended up seeing better veins in Matthew's hands so they went through his hand, near his knuckles. GOT IT! It took about 15 minutes, with the help of a suction syringe, he filled 2 weird looking viles. That was it. They got what they needed and then started filling the numerous viles they needed. Let me say this: HE FILLED UP 10 VILES!!!!!!!!!!! NO LIE! They said there was only a limited amount they could get from "little folks" like Matthew, but OH MY GOSH! Do you know how many labels they had? 10! I couldn't believe it. Our little Matthew didn't scream, didn't cry, didn't say a word. NOTHING!

Wow.....I was so proud of him. Momma took him right to Donald's for a nice lunch! He loved it! The male philbotamist gave him SPIDERMAN stickers and Matthew was in heaven!! You couldn't part those with him! The band-aid took up just about his whole hand! He pointed to it and wanted to know what it was. (It sure wasn't a Diego or Backyardigans band-aid that MOM has at home!) Oh Lord, we were so proud of him!!!

One thing about the vaccines that our pediatrician noticed. Hepatitis tests were done on Matthew and it was conflicting? Not sure about that. Please Lord! NO MORE SURPRISES! Just to be on the safe side, Matthew is having a full Hepatitis profile done on him. I'm hoping it was just because he had the hep shots and maybe was developing an immunity to it? We'll see. Either way, we'll deal with it! God says He doesn't give you more than you can handle!!!

Today, Wednesday, we have collected 2 more "specimens" for the hospital to test. We will head up to the hospital a little later on today to drop those off. After that? It's just a MOMMY and Matthew day!!! I think a good day at the park would be good for Matthew. Maybe some lunch and then who knows? Maybe a trip to TArget to bring other's TA's?! :o)

Ok, tomorrow is the cardiologist and mommy/daddy are both going. We are hoping for the best! OH YEAH.........please pray that BCBS will put Matthew in their system by TODAY! Him not being in the system, as of yet, is really COSTING us bigtime! We have to pay for everything upfront (w/o insurance). His antibiotic he needed alone, for his ear infection was almost $100! *ouch* Thanks......pray that Matthew's heart is fine and dandy and that all testing done on him will turn out just fine!
*pray for mommy's sanity too.......it's hard to watch him go through all these tests! He lets them do it but I'm there with him and I feel like such the villian! Especially when he looks at me while they are doing it.*

Until then.....