Sunday Shoot

10 Months Old

Tesfa came home on Sept 4, 2010. He turned 5 months old that day. He has now been with us for half of his life. I feel a bit relieved by this but at the same time think about the first half of his life and all the people who took care of him and love(d) him.

Even on our worst days I am still glad he is ours. He is such a sweet little boy and unless he has a raging ear infection he is pretty easy to get along with.

In the early part of January he pulled himself to standing in his crib and at the end of the month he rolled over onto his belly. My favorite milestone came in January as well-he learned to give kisses. It mostly consists of slobbering all over your face but I'll take it. He is working on crawling and I won't be at all surprised if he crawls and/or walks in the next few weeks.

The Mind Wanders

Last week I got some surprising news. I needed to take Tesfa to the hospital for an ultrasound. His head circumference had jumped from 50% to 95% since coming home. The dr. was a little alarmed. There is nothing like someone telling you something could be wrong with your kid to make your mind wander to some awful places. I googled hydrocephalus and began to wonder what the results were going to tell me. I think to myself (as the over thinker lets worry to much kinda person I am) we can cash in our 401K to pay for any surgeries and sell the house if we have to (seriously this is what Im thinking even before we had the test!).

I spent most of Friday crying my eyes out. Once again I felt/feel so blessed to have The Tribe. It's great to have friends who know what you are going through. I worried we were going to get the "you should have known" comments from friends outside the group (meaning they were waiting for something to go wrong with our adoption). Luckily that did not happen. The few people we did tell said nothing of the sort and only hoped that the results would prove that our son was fine.

As soon as we got home from the hospital I called the dr to see when the results would be in. They said it could be a day or two. UGH! I called again this morning and still no news. I saw friends for a playdate and then another friend for lunch. When leaving lunch I saw I had a missed call and sure enough it was the dr. office. They said they had the results. I wanted to throw up! If nothing was wrong they would have said that on the message, I thought. But sure enough nothing is wrong. Tesfa just has a big head like I know many Ethiopian children do. I'm thankful my son is fine and we don't have to cash in the 401K or sell the house and live in a one bedroom apt.