J.J.J.

Our little mister went to the opthamologist last Wednesday. Things are going swimmingly with his eye. The doctor was pleasantly surprised at how well J.'s eye is responding to the glasses and the patch. His eye has gone from 60/20 vision (with no glasses), to 30/20 vision to 20/20 vision (with glasses). That means that when he has his glasses on he can see perfectly. Because his eye is now 20/20 with glasses we only have to patch him for 2 hours a day now (down from 5 hours per day). In September we have another appointment do a simple eye test and then J. will see the doctor again in January. The doc. thinks that he'll likely reduce J.'s lense prescription at the January appointment if his vision continues to improve so well. I guess J.'s brain is making the connections necessary for him to have full use of that eye. Yeah! Sometimes I find it quite surprising that J.'s brain hasn't actually exploded with everything that has be going on up there over the past four months. What an amazing organ! What an amazing kid.

Last Tuesday we had a social working in to do our 'Six Month Evaluation' for J.'s placement. It is part of the paperwork that we are required to send to our agency who then forwards it to the Chinese government. Since everything is going SO well with J. we decided to get the evaluation done before DH goes back to work rather than wait for the offical six month mark. The meeting wasn't too dramatic. She just took the info. she needed -

Adjustment? - fine

Attachment? - fine

Sleep? - fine

Eating? - fine

Growth? - a little worrying

Overall Health? - fine

Fine Motor Skills? - fine

Gross Motor Skills? - fine

Get the point? The interview was a little repetative to say the least :-)) Thank goodness.