Micah- School, Health and Post Adoption stuff

Lets see, where to start?...

First thing is first, Micah's second stool testing came back negative, YAAAYY!!! (Abbys did as well!) So no parasite anymore, we're in the clear. So now we head to the GI clinic at Vandy to figure out what else might be wrong. I'll keep you updated there. In the mean time, we've become sanitation EXPERTS around here. AAAAAANNDD... Micah has learned the sign for potty and is doing awesome potty training!! Another big YAAAYY!! :) He still doesn't go #2 but one thing at a time. I'm thankful for the progress he's made and I'm so proud of him!

Second, I had my last meeting with the school on Friday (his IEP meeting), and it went great. But to my surprise, they've decided he would do better in the 3 year old class (special-ed PreK) rather than the 4/5 year old class. Which I went along with for several reasons: 1) His speech delay is so significant... I believe he is a really intelligent kid, given his circumstances, but still so far behind learning anything in English- colors, shapes, everyday objects, etc. So I think keeping him back will give him a better start. 2) He's such a tiny kid, I'm afraid he'd be in a land of giants in his age-appropriate class 3) He's still not fully potty trained, although I'm assuming many of the children in the 4/5 yr old class aren't either given that its special-ed. 4) He'll be with Abby!!! I think that will make an easier transition for him, I don't think it will have a positive or negative effect on Abby either way, and it means he gets to see the other kids on his days off (4/5 class would have been on opposite week days from Emily and Abby... which leads to the last reason.... I'M A FREE WOMAN ON TUE AND THU!!!! :D It means that twice a week from 8-2 its just me and Mabry! What a little gift from the Lord that is.

So today was his first day!!! After much picture taking from his emotional mommy, he walked straight in, took his coat off and started playing with the toys! He's gonna do great.

And on a different note all together:
I had heard before that you can turn your blog into a book, but never looked into it much. But this past weekend I finally found out how to do it and I'm having so much fun with it! I'm turning our whole "Bringing Home Boys" site into a hard-copy book! What a fun way to keep all of those precious memories for Micah to have. I love it. I encourage ALL of my fellow adoptive blogging families to do this! The program to edit the book is a free download, and then the cost of the book is determined by what size you choose, what kind of cover and how "big" it is. Its all on Blurb.com. Go check it out! And when I'm done (it might be a while), I'll post the link here so you can see mine as well. FUN!!!

Ok, now I'm off to go pick up FOUR of the kids from school! Crazy!