So we've been home almost a week and things are going quite well. Rose has had three doctors' appointments (one of them with three doctors) and everything has checked out great so far! She had five vaccinations and a TB poke on Monday. Today they drew EIGHT vials of blood for a variety of labs, etc. I thought for sure I was going to pass out on that one. But everyone dealt quite well, although Chuck said I was mother of the year for collecting the stool sample and whatnot.
Basically, Rose seems to be on track with everything, when she went into the Care Center she wasn't even charting on the American growth charts, now she's at the fifth percentile height and weight (Dillon is like 96th percentile or something). Today we had an appointment at the adoption clinic with three specialists who poked and prodded and pronounced her okay. She's fantastic developmentally, she's right on track with everything (and in some respects past where Dillon was at this age – she's way more daring, she's definitely going to keep us on our toes!)
With regard to the sibling stuff, everything seems to be going smoothly. Dillon declared that he was going to be "the best big brother in the whole world" and he's pretty much living up to that so far. The other day Chuck was tickling Rose and Dillon got very serious and sad. We asked him what was wrong and Dillon said that he didn't like it when Rose cried, we had to explain to him that she was laughing, and then he was fine. The only attention rivalry we've seen so far was at Grandma Vickie's house, where there was a bit of "look at me" going on , but other than that things have gone pretty smoothly.
They share a love of music, Rose does a great head-nodding thing when she's really into a song. The other day she was totally rocking out to "Punk Rock Girl" (Dead Milkmen?). She likes the big guitars and drums. Every day there's a dance party at our house and I think she'll be fine at Dillon's Punk Rock Birthday Party. I got her a kick-but outfit for it, too…
We sort of lucked into the fact that in April we had registered Dillon for a day camp this week at University School (Robots, Science, Soccer, and Tai Quon Do!) so both Chuck and I got to go to all of the Doctor's appointments but we didn't have to drag Dillon with. Also, we got some quality bonding time with Rose without having to worry about ignoring D.
Now we're going through the process of introducing the family and friends to Rose. So far she's doing really well, and I have to say Anna's the favorite so far. Rose took to her immediately. But, then again, she hasn't met Kate yet!