Ahh the constant change of childhood. Great alliteration there, don't you think? What's it mean today? Well.....
Elisha's had some sort of allergy thing going on with one of his eyes for the last 3 weeks. Coming and going- and finally getting worse and spreading to his other eye. So, today we went to visit Ms Rose- his nurse practitioner. Amazing to see how different he is now with her, compared to how he was in March. He was looking forward to visiting, and would have tromped off with her without me if she hadn't stopped him.
Nothing major with the eyes, and so amazing that he sat very still and looked all around for her, as she instructed, shining the light in his eyes, giving her a great view of his eyes and eyelids. Rose then went ahead and checked him out all over- she does a bird type whistle next to his ear (very soft sounding) as she checks them out. Elisha, as he was running around the room once we finished and were discussing treatment for his eye, found the small black ear piece she had used- he held it up and said, "Birdie??" as he looked inside it. He pointed to the stack of new ear pieces as we were walking out- "Birdie??"
He has grown from 10th% height and 3oth% weight when we brought him home in March, to 50th% for both. Wow! He's grown several inches and only put on a couple pounds since he was there in June and we did our 6 month post placement report. How amazing!
Sunday was our first snowfall of the season here in Ohio. It found Elisha and me out on the porch before church, faces upturned, trying to capture some of the flakes on our tongues. I wonder if he even remembers the snow???? I think all too soon, we'll be putting on his great snowsuit and heavy boots we got in Russia. He can't wait, and, honestly, Tim and I can't either- we all love snow and are looking forward to having some snow this year.
Chuckle, chuckle- beginning of this year saw us in South Central Siberia in the middle of winter...prepared for a Siberian winter. Instead, we had balmy 30 and 40 degree weather with a few flurries- no accumulation.... while, at the same time, back home in Ohio they had blizzards and several FEET of snow. Even made the news in Russia....
Gotta love the humor in that....... *grin* :0)
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