Wednesday, August 15, 2007

1st night


Last night Christopher was up about every 3-4 hours. When sleeping, he is a very good sleeper and sometimes I think he sleeps too much. He has been running a low grade temp and seems very uncomfortable & unconsolable at times. He has been through alot. Yesterday, he was thrust into our arms (complete strangers). He was taken from all that was familiar to him; sights, sounds, smells, touch, everything is new and scary to him. Who are these people kissing me on the face and neck and whispering in a strange language in my ear? For all that he has been through - he seems as if he is doing well and coping through the unknown. He really is a sweet baby and coo's to himself and is still always playing with those hands. He has 2 bottom teeth, and 2 top teeth, 1 on top is just now popping through. When we got him, he had little to no muscle tone especially in his arms. We have seen a difference in just 1 day of being with him. He can hold his head up and does that well. He is not pushing up yet when we have him on his tummy. But he is improving every day.We took him to the SOS clinic today and they diagnosed him with an Upper Respiratory infection. He has started to pull at his ears some and has an occasional cough. He weighed 14 lbs and was 26 inches long. He absolutely HATES all medicines and hated the doctor touching him today and assessing him. He can go from 0-60 with one drop of Tylenol on his tongue, it really is crazy to watch the personality change so quickly. He definetely has spunk. Tomorrow, we have our first INS interview with the US govt. Dean applied for Christopher's passport today and it should be ready sometime next week. We wish that we would have brought some movies or something, it is easy to get stir crazy in the hotel. You can only take so much of the outside heat and street peddlers, so you have to stay inside. We are hoping to do some sight seeing this weekend.
Blogger won't let me post photos, so more pics tomorrow

1 comment:

Debbie said...

Karen~

Congratulations!! Christopher is beautiful! Mariah also slept a lot the first few days, stress reaction I believe.

Did you bring a laptop?
We bought DVDs for 20,000 dong each, new releases, that we played on our laptop. Directions: Leave Hong Ngoc and head toward the lake, turn right on the street beside Little Hanoi restaurant, turn right again on first street. Follow this street around a corner and you will find the video store on the left. Go upstairs. Actually, I think it is called "Hollywood Video" or something similar to that. There are also lots of reasonably priced art shops on this street.

Hope this works for you,
Debbie, mom to Mariah, G&R 04/25 Lang Son
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