Need of some support

I don't have any experience with those type pix, but they sound perfectly reasonable for a couple to do, regardless of how the child comes to them. Just my $0.02. If it makes you happy and Hubby doesn't complain too much, go for it :D

Do what makes you happy!!!

I think it's a nice idea. You might have to explain to your family/friends, though. If they see the pictures, they may think that this means you will be adopting when you get your placement. However, 99.9% of foster children come into care with a plan for reunification with bio family. I had a 7 month old who was scalded in a tub by her drugged out father and the goal was reunification. It's rare (unless the parent killed another child) for the goal to be 'adoption' until after a year or more has passed. You will most likely not be adopting the first children who come through your door. It happens-but not very often and usually after a long, drawn out case.Just to give you an idea. I had three "low legal risk" who eventually went to relatives. First was a new baby girl. The youngest of 7. All siblings were removed and in foster/adopt homes or adopted by foster parents. There were no relatives who could pass a home study. Foster parents for older siblings all passed on the placement. Mom had no idea who the father could be. Mom visited sporadically and one day named a couple potential fathers. Two didn't show up for court. The third did show up and the court ordered DNA testing. The cw said "Don't worry. I don't see how he could be the father". He was. The cw said "Don't worry. He has a really tough drug habit. I can't see him getting clean". He did. But it didn't last and he eventually started using again. The case remained concurrent with "adoption" by me being the goal of the cw and child's GAL. Then bio dad's sister wanted the baby. They did a homestudy and she didn't pass. She also had her own kids removed for abuse and had an open case against her. She had no job. She exceeded the number of residents that could live in her home. The cw said "She'll never get custody". She did. Another child was supposed to stay one night (if he even came into care) and he became a 'forever' kid. You just don't know. And your family and friends won't be familiar with the process so they won't understand why "your" baby or child that you are adopting is visiting with her bio family each week. They won't understand if you say the baby (who they think is yours to adopt) is going to live with an aunt in Kentucky. People just don't understand how the system works. I would save any announcements until you get a TPR date on a child to adopt and maybe do some family photos. In the meantime, I would just tell family and friends that you are just "caring for this child until his mom can get him back" rather than "I'm adopting from foster care". Because, most of the time, even in low legal risk cases, it doesn't go to adoption. And if your family/friends believe you are adopting a particular child and you don't, it just adds to the misconceptions out there about foster/adopt and how it works. "My friend Lindsay was adopting a boy from foster care and she had to give him back". When, in reality, you were fostering a child who was reunified with his family-which is how foster care works.

Isn't it so funny how that works? You just never know. The strangest things happen. "Sure things" fall apart. A "shot in the dark" becomes a dream come true.

I think the pictures are nice, but I would keep them private until they are part of an adoption story. Remember, for an adoption to be successful a reunification must fail first, and that is a tragedy for our kids. You do't want it to look like you are hoping for, or rooting for your child's biological parents to fail.