I got to meet the "Little Guy"

Today was such a special day. I got to met the little guy we want to adopt. CM called and asked if I could like to come to her home and meet him. We had such a nice time and I will cherish that day forever. He was a little hesitant of me but soon enough got into my purse and found my phone so that was a great ice breaker. I sat on the floor and played with him for almost two hours talking to his foster care worker who was monitoring the visit and CM (bio-mom). He is a normal 18 month old, walking and learning to talk and getting into everything. They allowed me to take a few pictures but to respect confidentiality laws I am unable to post them. Unfortunately Gary was not able to go with me to meet him. He has blond hair and big blue eyes and has a small build.

Updating my blog...foster care/adoption here we come!

Through the place I used to work I know a lady (CM) who has an 18 month old boy that is curently in foster care and has been since he was 3 months old. CM mild mental retardation and without agency assistance she is unable to parent him to the best of his needs. She realizes this and wants him to have the best life possible and has asked us to become his parent. She has consistantly followed reunification plan and gets monitored visits for 6 hours per time three days per week. She has followed all of the States requests but is still unable to make it to the next level for her to care for him perenantly. The little guy is very attached to her and has healthy attachment to his foster parents as well as his case manager and social worker.

After our long road of infertility when it was started becoming more of a realitty that CM would actually relinquish her parental rights we decided to do what was necesaary on our part to become "Little Guy's" parents. We started PS-MAAP foster parent classes 4/6/09 and finished them 7/6/09. Now we are waiting to do our final home inspection by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. I'm working on baby proofing our home...quite the task. As soon as we are approved as licensed foster parents we will be able to start gradually taking care of him.