It started with her first ever play date on Monday with a 4 year old boy from her special ed class. I asked the mother to stay so that we could get to know each other. Boy, is she loopy. A real life new-ager. Not anything I’m used to or even comfortable with. She said the first time she saw Jonalyn in the hall at school, she noticed Jonalyn had a big, glowing aura, like heat coming off of asphalt. Earlier we “talked” about attachment and when Jonalyn get cranky and naughty and wouldn’t play with the boy, she said she said she saw this spring of attachment between Jonalyn and me. That’s why she said Jonalyn wouldn’t leave me side. Um, yeah. I saw a little girl who needed straightening out and a nap. 🙂 I said we “talked” about attachment. But this woman didn’t talk. I know where her son gets his ADHD. She never let me answer anything. She would ask a question, but then she jumped from subject to subject and from place to place. Inside, outside, kitchen, sunroom, “Can I see your house?” And frankly, she made herself a little bit too much at home in my house.

Wednesday she started both speech and OT. The schedule they set up for me works so well – speech first, an hour break for lunch and potty, then OT. This works so well because we have to travel a good distance for the therapy. Jonalyn likes her therapists. I praise the Lord that she has this opportunity. Pray that this will yield some good fruit for Jonalyn.

Thursday we spent the morning at the regular pediatrician. Three times in the past month, Jonalyn has vomited during the night. No fever. She doesn’t call out to us, so we don’t know when this happens. Sometimes quite a while passes before we discover it. We are afraid she will choke without us knowing about it. When we do catch it soon after it happens, she is limp. The doctor thinks it is either reflux or seizures. Neither is uncommon among microcephalic children. So we start with Prevecid and wait for an appointment with a neurologist. We were warned that it could take several months to see him.

Good news? Like I thought, D*sney was GREAT for her attachment to Doug. I might suggest it early on for all older adopted children. For the first time, she called out for Doug when she was done in the bathroom! Several times now she has stood at the window and asked, “Daddy come home?” She can’t wait for him to walk through the door.

And we had some fun today. We went to this new Asian market an adoptive mom told me about. It’s the only one anywhere close to us. We came home with dried mangos, Korean soy sauce, Korean cookies, Vietnamese noodles. Oh, and a big bag of jasmine rice. And I saw lots of other things I’m going to get next time I go.