Praise the Lord for Small Steps!

Wow...today was a long day. EG got up this morning at 3:00am and she would not go back to sleep....but she cried and cried and cried. Tried feeding her and that was not it and she was dry so that was not it. Chris and I can only assume that she must be grieving....because it was a different cry and she would not let me put her anywhere but on top of my chest. So we started very early this morning!!!! But I know that if she does not grieve then we can not move on...so all we did was hold her and tell her that it is going to be ok and that we will never leave her and we love her.

We then had to be downstairs to meet with Vicki(Rebecca's helper) to go for the medical exam, passport visa picture, passport pictures and above all SHOTS!!!! So we started out with the visa picture for EG to come to the US. Then we went down to another building right next to the picture place and started the physicals--BLAHHHHH!!!! Well the first check was for the measuring of her head and looking at the left thumb. The doctor said oh in the yes they will take care of that no problem. He looked at her thumb and then felt of her thumb joints and moved us to the next room. The next room was where they measured EG and weighed her. Then since we were right on the bubble with time and them going to lunch Vicki talked to them and they rushed us on through before they went to lunch. So the next room was for the ENT part of the exam...the doctor there held a squeaky toy to the side and squeased it and watched for EG reactions. Then he played a couple of notes on a small keyboard and watched her reaction again. Then he wanted to look in her throat and she kept biting down on the stick. LOL So he said ok and passed us on.

Then the last room was the shots!!!! We had to have 6 shots. She had 2 in left arm, 1 right arm, 3 in the legs. We gave her some tylenol before we left for this appt. and that was hoepfully knocking off the edge. But 6 SHOTS--nothing could take the edge off that. I held her for everything except the shots and Chris did that, so I was not the bad person there. EG just cried and cried and cried. I almost cried also--but I know this is a step we have to do before we can go home.

After this we all had about 1 1/2 hrs to shop and then meet to go to the police station for the passport pictures and paperwork. So with that there are no pictures because they will not let you do that in the police station. But we in the end of the day were given EG's vaccination record, birth certificate and paperwork to get her visa picked up in a few days. EG was extremely tired, she did not get her nap at 12:00.

When we finally got back to the room we attempted to feed EG and she would only eat part of the formula and would not have anything to do with the rest. So we ate a banana and some gerber puffs. We began playing in the floor and lo and behold we saw a smile!!! Yes, a small one but a smile at that. Then she began making some noices and interacting with me and Chris!!! We were so excited. Just when we thought today was a milestone.....EG kept trying to go to sleep and at 6:30 that was not going to happen if we could help it. So we went to the hallway here at the hotel and began walking up and down the hall...this was first also because till now she would not let us put her down!!! So we walked all the hallways to our floor and when we got back to the room.....SHE POOPED!!!!! I know that is not a major milestone, but it is for adopted children at first. Because they are to traumatized and stressed they usually do not poop for several days. Well if you lost count--today is DAY 3. So we were defintely excited about that because we know she is settling in a little bit.

So now everyone is in bed and I am finishing this post so I can go to bed--we will sightsee a small village tomorrow.

Praise the Lord!!!! for small steps!!!!

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