Medical reports from Ethiopia mentioned Erythrocytic parasites on his blood smear, although in the records there was no mention of treatment for malaria in his med reports....so a new blood smear was ordered by the Childrens Specialty group and is red blood cellls did come up .2% positive. This is a relatively low parasitic rate, and our little man has remained asymptomatic most likely because he has had the infection most of his life and therefore he is partially immune to it... So treatment will begin as soon as we get the meds....We are on the radar for the CDC so we will proceed with treatment. Will is not infectious with this infection. I had to take him to childrens hospital again last night for another blood draw.....this one testing to see if he can take one of the meds to treat the organism which was identified as P. vivax.

Will is adjusting well to his new life:) He loves the attention and love he gets from his sisters and all their friends. He is a little lover with me and loves to be carried around. My right arm is getting buff again now that I have another little one to carry around. Every morning he wakes up and yells for "mama" He has a strong bond with Jeffrey and I am mostly chopped liver when Daddy gets home. It is quite the sight to see. We went to Toys R Us to use some gift cards today and bought some sand and set up the sandbox temporarily in the garage as the weather is not looking lovely for the next few days. ... We had fun with it in the garage. Teaching him how to play is something I have been working on with him . His fascinations are the switches and buttons and he especially likes the control panel in my van. His vocabulary is coming along. Once a word is taught, he masters it. So we work on a few new words a day. He does call himself Will and sings to himself "Will is beautiful".... very cute. We have to agree he is beautiful too. I had a lady come up to me a few days ago when we were at preschool open gym at the gymnastics center in town and asked me if I had Will in modeling classes.

Yesterday we went to the Monkey Joes playplace where there are bouncy/jump blowups and he was very coordinated on all of them. He had a good workout for about an hour and a half. He is a pretty strong little guy and we have no worries in his gross motor skills:)