Advertisements
Advertisements
We have a date set for Monday to sign paperwork at our attorney's office. He will then petition the courts for an adoption date. I am told there should be no reason we cannot finalize November 15th!!! YES, doin the happy dance...been doing it all day long! I will really be dancing when I get an official letter in the mail w/ our court date.
I also got a call from our SW at the adoption agency we will be using. She is very excited about our movement towards finalization. She wants our homestudy prior to our finalization because she wants to start working on matching us right away.....oh I like this lady! We also talked about how we have our hearts set on a baby girl. Asked her if that was wrong/strange to choose a gender and she said it was very common specifically with this agency as they only place already born TPR'd infants which means for (NY) the babies are at least 6 weeks old at time of placement. CC also does this, does not place infants at birth because of the 4 week waiting period. Then you add in the 2 weeks to process paperwork, find a family...all of that and baby will be at least 6 weeks old by the time we get to meet her for the first time.
I don't feel her as much as I have which makes me think she was born or will be born soon. I could be being silly :) wouldn't be the first time. I've been nesting like crazy which is somewhat instinctive for me, I know I"m not pregnant....but I did this with E and before I would get calls for foster baby's. I'm somewhat intuitive about things, my mom is that way, I have been since HS about certain things. Try to go by my intuition and feelings are pointing that baby girl has been or will be born very very soon. I feel in my heart we won't wait long for our baby girl after November 15th. I just hope we are ready for her!
BTW E was amazing at OT today. I feel he had an off week due to my mom being here, parties, and not enough sleep. He's been an angel 2 year old entire week :). C had horse lessons and the trainer told E that if he "listened to mommy" that he could go for a little ride at the end. He was very well behaved. He played with the barn dog, got very dirty, jumped on the rubber stuff in the barn, found horse trunks and asked me what color they were, and finally kicked up some dust on the indoor arena, not good for his asthma so we went outside and C came outside to ride around the outdoor arena. It was such a beautiful day and this stable is picturesque, wonderful wonderful day. We sat in the grass and watched C ride. Oh C is beautiful on a horse. She has long legs and sits so tall and graceful. She really got the rhythm of how to post for the first time today. And E got to ride. He was beside himself with pride and joy, he does this thing when he is overjoyed about something, he tries very very hard NOT to smile, it ends up with this proud/smirk look on his face, its priceless. He had C's helmet on and rode around the entire (HUGE) indoor arena. He got off, would not take the giant helmet off. He looked like a bug head. He then wore it all the way to his friends house for playdate. I think I have a 2nd horse rider. He loved every second. We said "hi" to all the horses and are getting to know some of their personalities. It will be sad when winter hits :(. They do have a "heated" barn but that doesn't mean its cozy in the middle of upstate NY winter. I've decided E is going to have a good winter and that his asthma will be in control! So far so good. We have an appointment with his pulmanologist on Monday and I think he is going to keep him on the low dose of meds he is on now. Last year this very same time he was wheezing, junky, awful breathing that was totally out of control. This year after one year of very good treatment has totally turned around. He does need medication but its very much under control and (music) NOOO NEB treatments! Its all w/ his puffer and allergy pill. So no more steroid psycosis.
I have my adoption physical scheduled for Friday morning. One last TB test, and they get to tell me I'm fat and need to loose weight :( but otherwise healthy, joy of joys. J (dh) has his scheduled the end of October, earliest he could get in w/ his crazy schedule. That is it, we are DONE! November 15th we will be "on the books" and who knows we may just have an early Christmas present??? No matter when she comes, it will work out just as it should :).
L