CHEO appointment...

This afternoon Matteo and I headed to CHEO for his appointment at the International adoption clinic and 4 hours later we headed home, a very exhausted and asleep Matteo and a very tired mommy. The prognosis at the moment is that Matteo is doing really really well developmentally, is exactly where he should be as a child of 8.5 months and is as normal and even advanced in comparison to a child who was never in an orphanage. The doctor was very impressed and said he is doing great....then she ordered lots and lots of bloodwork!!...so hopefully we'll get those results and they will also show that he is doing great....however he is still on the small side of weight, 5th percentile....so he has been consistent....growing slowly.....so we'll go back in 2 months for the next checkup and will discuss the results and where to go from here medically, if needed.....The nurse who took the blood did really well and only had to poke Matteo twice, one in each arm and she was able to get enough to fill all the vials she pulled out....Matteo on the other hand screamed and cried throughout and then raised his arms to me crying and wanted to get out of there.....hope we won't have to go through that again anytime soon!!