[robandjulie]

thanks all!

It went fine, although I wish I had prepared the following, in case anyone else is facing one soon:

1. She needed all the medical stuff in terms of which tests we'd had done, when, and the results and our plan for follow up. We called our peds office and haven't heard back yet so most of that section was blank.

2. She asked what his expressive language was and we started trying to identify some of his words. This is always harder to do under pressure and we ended up stalling out of words at 25. She said that was ok but normal was 50; we were on the low end of normal and could qualify for EI and suggested we bring them out. After she left we figured we'd make a real LIST of words so we could have it for an EI review and came up with...78 clearly understandable words. 78! Not 25! So we spent a lot of time talking about speech delays when it's not really an issue. I didn't think it was, but DD was incredibly expressive at age 2 (talked in whole paragraphs at her 2nd birthday) and Jorge's right on track so he seemed a bit behind HER but obviously not delayed.

One odd thing: she asked about his bio family and we gave her the tiny bit we knew and said we hoped to find out more when we got the packet back. Then she started paging through this huge thick packet we got from teh attorney with the BC and adoption decree and showed us that--duh!!--the social worker report in Spanish and English was in that packet! We'd never even looked at it. So now we know Jorge's birthfather's name, some of his info, more of his backstory, etc.

Thanks again for sharing your experiences!