FINALLY...WE WILL BE A FAMILY

Our Soon to be Beautiful Family

We received an email today from our Adoption Clinician:

The Idaho Court of Appeals has upheld the termination of parental rights in this matter. You are free to proceed to adoption.

We are FINALLY going to be an official family of 4!! I really was beginning to wonder how long it would take before we received these words. We are so excited. We are through our 3 month supervisory period so we can now move forward and set an immediate adoption day. Now the bummer is we have to wait until next week when everyone is back from their spring break get away to start things in motion. So the first available court date will be NATALIE'S ADOPTION DAY!!! WAHOO!!!!!!

The next good thing is as soon as we adopt her and get the court documents showing it is official (usually w/in 1 week 2 at the very most) we can move towards immediate sealing. I was beginning to wonder if Corbin was still going to fit into his sealing/blessing outfit for family pictures but I think we are good unless he goes through a growth spurt in the next few months.

I am just so excited I can't hardly contain my excitement.

Newest Temporary Member

Wow! It has really been over a month since I last posted. Not much has happened until now. We got a new foster boy. His name is Tristin. He is really a "wild ball of fire". He came to us extremely hyper but has calmed down a little bit but still has temper tantrums especially when his Mom leaves. I am sure he is just confused as to why he can't go back with Mom whenever he sees her. He is 4 tears old and is only 32lbs. I took him to the doctor today for his 4 year check-up and ended up leaving w/a finger poke for a lead test and 5 shots. YIKES is all I have to say. The 5th was the H1N1 Flu Vaccine. Giving shots to a 4 year old is VERY challenging because they kick and scream. I commend the Nurse for doing such a great job and keeping him contained.

He currently goes to Head Start and also attends a Developmental Pre School to help with some development skills needed for pre school. The teachers do extremely well with him for him only being there since September. He really enjoys playing with Natalie. They like to hide under her and Corbin's crib. Just some things I have discovered over the last few weeks is his favorite color is green and his favorite toys are transformers. Don't like the fact that at such a young age he likes Transformers where they are so violent but we jut have to teach him about violence. I am trying to possibly get him transferred to a home on Coeur d'Alene so he can stay with the teachers he has now. If he lives with us until his Mom gets her life back in order he will have to be transferred to Rathdrum schools with new teachers and then be put on a waiting list or Rathdrum head start which wouldn't be good for him. I can only do so much so we will see.

This is his look of "what do you want"!