Encouraging

Thursday, Sept. 25th
Today Arouna had his 1st doctors appointment with a pediatrician from Arkansas Childrens Hospital.  Dr. Shelly Baldwin saw him for a general check-up.  She has specialized in seeing children that have been adopted internationally and she was excellent.  She also is the daughter of Dr. Ron Baldwin, who was Zach and Lindsey's pediatrician when we lived in Magnolia, Arkansas many years ago. 
Dr. Baldwin thoroughly checked him and got his full history from birth, at least as much as we knew.  She had blood drawn and also checked his stool for parasites.  His blood work came back good.  And she
was very positive at what he might be able to accomplish in the future.  We came away feeling very encouraged.
She is working on getting appointments set up with specialists in Audiology, Opthalmology, Rehab medicine along with wanting him to have an EEG and MRI.  So we're waiting to hear about those appointments and praying they will get scheduled before we need to return to Quebec.
We were in Little Rock almost all day until 6pm and overall, Arouna did great.  He really enjoys getting out and going places, loves riding in the car, riding in the stroller, etc.  And tonight he let me rock him to sleep for the very first time.  YAY!!