A delayed home update

Update you say??? Sorry for the delay. LOVING being a family of 5!!! Megan is doing very well! She has been extremely comfortable with her new home. She loves being with the boys and the boys really enjoy her. They pretty much do anything she wants. Ha! Let’s see how long that lasts. : ) I love it!!! Lily is so excited to have her home, too. Every morning Lily is so excited to have her get up that she showers Megan’s with a bit too much attention. She pretty much jumps on Megan but we are trying to teach her to say “off Lily” but this is going to take time. Right now she just screams – not a panic scream but more of this darn dog keeps annoying me scream. We’ve all pretty much beaten the jet lag and we did so fairly quickly. Megan has been on a MI time schedule pretty much since we got home with the exception of sleeping through the night. She gets up once or twice. I’ve tried cutting naps and her sleeping-ins to help with making it through the night but so far nooooo good. Hopefully over the next couple of days she’ll get better. Jeffrey and I thought the jet lag going to China was far worse than coming back – thank goodness.

Megan went to the pediatrician on Thursday for her 1st check up. He is happy that she is healthy even though she only weighs in at 21 lbs and is 30 inches tall. I can’t remember the exact percentiles but she’s about in the 10th percentile for both. She is behind by US standards on her vaccinations but she should be caught up here shortly. Megan will see the cardiologist at the end of July. It will be very interesting to hear what he has to say especially with the large bump she has on her chest from her heart surgery in China. It looks like the breast bone didn’t heal correctly. One thing the pediatrician did tell us that her heart condition was a life threatening one. Why China waited until she was a 1 ½ yrs to do her surgery we will never know but thank God she is ok.

Jeffrey returned to work today but not with approval from his wife and daughter… However, the checkbook call for cash won… Hopefully, this holiday week will go by quickly. It’s been hard over the last 5 nights because Jacob has had baseball each night since we’ve been home so we haven’t really had a lot of family time since we got back from China. I am so looking forward to dinner together and getting a much deserved and much missed Uccello’s BBQ pizza. I have been craving a pizza since about day 6 in China.

We are all doing well and are overwhelmed at how much love and support you have given us. Our prayers have been answered and dreams have been made with the arrival of our little girl. I can’t begin to tell you how complete things seem with Megan in our lives. She is so amazing. We are so blessed to have 2 amazing boys and 1 cute little girl made in China.

Hope to see you all soon!

 1st pb&j

 meltdown because we told her Lily wants to play with her own toys