One month "Gotcha Day"

On the Tuesday (the 4th), it was one month since the judge in Russia officially announced us a family of 3. Today, it has been one month since you were placed in our arms forever. It has been a whirlwind of a month and you have been such a trooper with all these doctors visits. You have attached so well to both of us and there is no doubt in my mind that you know who your daddy and mommy are. You still try to smack the dogs in the nose and they continue to just walk away from you. Naps are getting better and when we are home I can get you to take a nap for about 1 hour to 1 1/2 hours. You felt grass for the very first time and were unsure of it at first, but now you like it. You will sit there and just tear up pieces of grass with the occasional piece going into your mouth (you are such a boy!). You still can only take a few steps on your own and most times would prefer to just crawl. You are into everything and like to explore, but isn't that just like every toddler? Sometimes I will watch the things you do and think that we have a little dare devil on our hands. You observe the things others do and your mind is like a sponge because you will repeat what they did after only seeing it once. Every once in awhile when you are screaming and I cannot find a way to make you happy, I start searching for the receipt to see if I can return you. With joking aside, you are the most amazing and beautiful little boy we have ever known. I could never understand why we had to go through so much heartache for almost 4 years of trying to start a family. Now I know it's because you were met to be ours. We just had to realize we had to travel half way around the world to find you. I look at you at times and still can't believe you are ours. I can't begin to tell you how lucky we are to have you in our lives. To think that it only has been a month since you have been with us. I can't wait to see what the future has in store for us as a family!

We got the test results back from the stool samples and he does have giardia, so we started the medicine to treat it yesterday. Hopefully he will be back to himself shortly. We didn't get the results back for lab work, but we will get that on Wednesday when we meet with the doctor again.