Two Months

ChunWen on the day we met - Sept 7.



AnnaWen home one month, and home almost two months.

Two months today we met our Wen, which gave me a great idea to post pictures of her from that day, from a month ago, and from today... it wasn't until I went looking for the pictures that I realized I haven't had my camera out in the past week - since Hallowe'en - because it's been just too crazy. So, I cheated. The last pic was last week so she was one week shy of home two months. I'll get a good picture tomorrow and when she's home four months I'll try again with more accurate pictures. She's cute, though, eh? I don't see much of a difference. In other such picture collections on other blogs, I see a huge difference in the children - though most of those are of babies and two months to a six month old is a little more life changing than to a 2.5 year old.

We went with Wen to the dev'tal clinic today. I'm trying not to be disappointed b/c she didn't present as well as I thought she was doing... though the more I think about it, the more I think my gut is right. I don't want to be one of those naive parents who turns a blind eye to professional's opinion and insists the kid is fine (I've worked with those, it only ends up detrimental to the child) but the 'numbers' she obtained on the tests were just too low based on what I see her doing and how far she's come in two months. The doctor was impressed with where she is considering what she's been through, and is more interested in seeing the rate of progress from here to there (three months from now) than considering the cold hard numbers measured today. Funny - or not so funny - based on the information the doc had from Wen's referral package (I referred her to the clinic when we accepted the referral and sent the medical information we had at that time - confusing that there's two meanings of 'referral' there but this is turning more into a ramble than an informational post so it really doesn't matter what you take away from it), her assumption from the information in the referral package was ... autism... which was my biggest fear when we received the referral. She said she was surprized by the girl she met in the waiting room but still was looking for all the signs. Her concerns were put to rest very quickly though, and she was given a clear bill of health with respec to PDD of any sort. Phew. In spite of good answers to very specific, pointed questions, the fear lingered in me right up to September 7, but was put to rest within 20 seconds of meeting Our Girl - still nice to hear an objective professional say so too.

Can you tell I'm tired? And in the morning, the professional photo shoot we booked since we failed so miserably to do it ourselves. Ah, I can feel the stress from here and now.

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