this is not how dental appointments usually go!

Hi there everyone.
I Just want to let you know about Sarah's appointment today. She went to the pediatric dentist in Hood River. We are not doing her tube surgery tomorrow but waiting until not this Thursday but next to do the tubes and dental surgery together. She will have at least one tooth pulled since it is "rotten" and eating at the permanent tooth. Then she will get her tubes. Great one less time "under the knife" by putting the surgeries together! I appreciate the Dr's working together since one works mostly out of The Dalles and the other is only in Hood River and they said they are not really doing this "team" stuff as much. So the surgery will be in Hood River. The pediatric dentist used to be apart of a cleft palate team: Praise the Lord! He was able to exam her and has done work like this quiet a bit; yeah!
So here is the thing that really shocked me today. The dentist asked "so how old is she?". I said 3yr 4months; why? So anyway he asked me "Who told us how old she was?" and long story short he said by looking at the x-rays of her teeth she is in her 4th year of life! He thinks she is 4yrs 4months old! It took me awhile to put it together. I did call our adoption agency and they did say they have seen it happen before with kids that are adopted after infancy. The agency asked several questions and they said, "Well, get her growth plates evaled at some point but it does sound that way (that she is older)". She does act like a 3yr old but that is actually more normal for a 4yr old that has been in an orphanage. She was evaled a couple of weeks ago and they scored her in the 3-4yr old range for skill development for kids here in the US so it makes more sense that she is 4 not 3. I was not expecting that today. (I had asked several people in China and some people when we got home if they had seen a 3yr old Chinese girl who was so tall - guess my assumption was right!)
What does it mean? not much. We will keep her birthday the same for now. It does mean that we will be looking at her bone grafting when she is "9" rather than 10. We will visit school age issues if they come up. We have some great people in our adoption group and there is a couple that has had the same age difference issues but theirs was more drastic (2yrs age difference) and we will chat with them to see if they have any advice. We are so grateful for the support we have here with the adoption group. We will chat on whether or not to get a second opinion.

So hope you have had a good day and we'll chat again soon, Becky