Laina The Lion

Today I had to take Laina down to the Outpatient Lab at the hospital for her blood tests. The adopted children from China have to be tested for many things, among them are HIV, Tuberculosis, Hepatitus A and B, and Lead poisoning. She was an angel in the waiting room, charming everyone by waving and smiling whenever they looked our way, and then we were called in.....she screamed and GROWLED like you wouldn't believe when they had to take her blood. We all survived but I overheard people talking in the hallways afterward, wondering what was happening to THAT BABY, and thank God they were done doing whatever it was! She can really rock the house! We were fine as soon as she was sitting in my lap, having a lunch-bottle; casually pretending that it couldn't possibly have been US causing all that rucous. I amposting a few family photos, as last weekend we introduced Laina to all kinds of people. One is of her with Aunt Betsy and her dog, Summer. The second is of Grandpa and Laina, the third is of her cousin Jacob and her at the piano, another is of her and her Aunt Trish. There is one of her and her cousin Amy also. She was really great about letting everyone hold her and feed her, we are happy about that because we are both from big families who love babies.