Today we finally got Lily to the doctor. We were having a battle with our insurance company about the fact that an adopted child should be added to your insurance immediately. There is a Federal Law OBRA'93 that mandates that an adopted child be treated the same as a biological child. Anyway, we got her added and she went to the doctor today.
How did she do? She did great! The doctor examined her and she cooperated really well. Then the doctor ordered blood tests....eeeekkkk! images of a child screaming bloody murder flooded our heads. Well, surprise! When the lab tech needed to put the tourniquet on Lily started wrapping it around her arm herself. Then she let out a little fuss when she got poked and that was it! At first the lab tech thought she was going to get a fight from Lily but she was quite surprised when she not only cooperated but tried to assist her! After the blood letting it was all over. I say blood letting because they took about 9 or 10 vials of blood! It didn't seem to phase Lily one bit, she was ready to run around after her visit to the doctor.
By the way, she does weigh 22 lbs (remember they weighed her in China and we thought, no way did she weigh 22 lbs) and is 32 3/4 inches tall. she was in the 25th percentile for height and 5th percentile for weight. That's pretty good considering that our daughter Emily was below the scale completely. Of course this is based upon an American growth chart rather than a Chinese chart.
Another interesting fact. When we received Lily's referral it stated that she had a deformity in her ear called pre-auricular fistula in her right ear. Well, when we got her she didn't have anything externally noticeable. Today at the doctor visit she checked Lily's ears and everything looked normal! We don't understand why the medical report from China said she had this congenital issue but there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with her ear at all!!! We'll probably never know why this happened. We have our own theory, we had stated in our homestudy that we would accept a minor special needs child, and our natural born son has a deformed right ear. The CCAA knew that our son has this ear issue and may have matched us with Lily for that reason. Whatever the case may be, we know that God has sovereignly placed this little girl in our home. Of course, the fact that she shares the exact birthday Oct 17th 2006 with our grandson helps a little too!
Some Fun
Our MacBook has a program called Photo Booth where you can take pictures of yourself through various distorted lenses. Lily saw Emily doing this and thought it was funny. She got her turn and sat in front of our laptop cracking herself up with all the funny pictures. Below is one of her best
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