Happy Eastern!

Its been long time since I did not blog, and this is because we have been busy, some of us busy with working, others with learning to read and write and others with day care, monkeys, potty training and bugging big brothers. We celebrated Daddy`s birthday, Valentine`s day, Mother`s day (March 8 - in Europe) and most important one year since Meetcha` day! It is so hard to imagine how was our life like one year ago and how everything has changed ever since we met them...

Our most important update is Gabi`s surgery, on February 11, the same day with Daddy`s birthday. We are so grateful everything went well and I can say from all my heart, Gabi was very well taken care of. Not only he had one of the top ophtalmologists specialized in ptosis, but the professionalism and kindness of everybody who took care of him made us feel like he was really in very good hands. I am happy we did not do the surgery right away, since we were able to explain him what and why everything is going to happen. We made a deal for a visit to Toys R Us for the day after. When we arrived at the hospital, he was welcomed by a big red car he was able to drive in the hallway, he was given a beautiful pajama with with Tom and Jerry and in no time we were called for surgery. We waited maybe 20 minutes in a room with other children, watching Nemo.

A nice lady brought him to the operating room, she asked him whats his favorite flavor - and with chocolate smelling anesthetic - he felt asleep in no time. No pain, no cry, no stress. The surgery started right in time - 8:00 am and it lasted for 2 hours.

The post-op experience, I dont even want to remember. With certitude, it was very painful for all of us, but he was very brave and recovered pretty fast. His eyes were very swollen, he was not able to tolerate light for several days, and even when he was in pain, he was not at all a wynner.

Everything is going great since then. He had a psycho-educational evaluation in Romanian and English and surprisingly he was more confortable in Romanian. At 5 yrs and 7 months, he scored an age equivalent of 6.5 yrs in math, 6.3 yrs in problem solvings, 6.0 in reading, 6.0 in time, money and measurements, 6.2 yrs in decoding and 5.6 yrs in comprehension. His speach and language were the only problem and he qualifies for speach and laguage therapy, but unfortunately it will take several months to get the services. However, his math skills were very flattering for his mom, who has a BD in Physics and Math. Needless to say, he is again and forever the Mommy`s Boy!

And lets not forget Yulia`s newest and the most frequently used additions to her vocabulary: "I can do it!!" "Let me do it!" "Why?" and of course, everything is about... Yulia`s. Yulia`s daddy, Yulia`s mommy, Yulia`s monkey (she has a collection of 5 monkeys black, white, purple, pink and blue), Yulia`s Gabi, Yulia`s DVDs, Yulia`s books, Yuli`s bed, Yulia`s milk, Yulia`s toys and I can go on and on and on.....She says "Love you", too.

Happy Eastern to all our friends!

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