The first few days home:)

I've been trying to keep our first few days at home quiet to let Alton get used to his new surroundings. He seems to be settling in and even slept through the night in his new bed twice so far! John went back to work right away on Tuesday, but I have another few weeks off of work.
I took Alton in for his combination 1 year check up/post adoption physical. We have a new pediatrician as our old one retired just before we returned home. I have to say, I LOVE our new pediatrician. She seemed to be more pro-active and thorough with Alton's post adoption physical than our other one was with Athena when we brought her home. She has experience with international adoption and really took her time going through all of his history and explaining the tests that she likes to have done for the kids and why. As a kudos to the Colombian care system and to Ayudame, she said she was very impressed with his medical records. In particular she said his immunization record was the most detailed, thorough and complete one she's seen for an internatinally adopted child. She said she was very happy to hear that he already had 8 teeth at 10 months old when we recieved him because she feels this is a good indicator that he recieved good pre-natal care and good nutrition as an infant. He's still small, only 7th percentile for weight and 19th for height. He doesn't seem small to us, so I was a little surpised by this. Maybe it's those cheeks that make his seem bigger to us:) She said she wants us to keep him on formula for at least another month yet because of his small size combined with him being premature. Other than that though, she said he's doing fine:) Nothing major to worry about aside from a few small intitutional/orphanage delays that can be expected. The sucky part about his appointment was that I needed to hold him down for shots and to have blood drawn. I think he was tramatized by all of this because when we returned home from the appointment, he was doing his self-soothing humming noise that he used to do when we first got him. He hadn't been doing it for the last few weeks since being with us, but he went back to it yesterday afternoon. I also need to take him back next week for his tb test:( Hopefully that will be the last of the needles for him until his 15 month appointment!
He likes his new highchair and starts getting excited when I put him in it because he knows it's time to eat:)