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Mystery solved

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Luke has been home a little over a week.  A week already?!  How is that possible? As most international adoptive families do, we spend the first week in medical appointments.  We visited the clinic and hospital on there different days to see the doctor, obtain labs, and run tests. Napping in between x-rays (He exhausted himself crying. Seeing him cry, calling for mama, and reach out for me but me not be able to pick him up was one of the hardest things on me yet) I haven't talked much about why Luke was labeled "special needs" on this blog so far.  Partly because we had limited information to share, and in part because as an adoptive parent you think about how much is my story to share and how much is his story to share.  Well the reality is, it is going to come up before he is old enough to share this part of his story.  When he's wearing a swim suit.  When a babysitter is changing him into pajamas.  When he's rolling around on the f...