Adoption Worker Assigned
Woo hoo! I just got a call from Cookie's worker letting me know that we have now been officially assigned our adoption worker - K. will be coming over to our house on Tuesday the 14th along with Cookie's worker to make the transition. That will be the last time that Cookie's worker - R., will be meeting with us.K. will be talking to us about the next steps in the process, our contract, and talking to us about the presentation summary and timelines.
Very soon we will have to decide on and retain our adoption lawyer. We are told there are several very nice (and smart and efficient) ones who will direct bill the state so we do not have to pay anything out-of-pocket. As we are not independently wealthy, this will be a huge blessing.
We are off to FL this weekend, and Cookie will be meeting her materal grandparents (my folks) for the first time. I think my folks are excited, and a bit nervous. They've seen one too many horror stories unfold on television about children who are taken away from adoptive parents. They really want Cookie to be "the one". There isn't anything more I can do to assure them that she is. They just want the paperwork to be "signed and sealed". I do too, but nothing that has happened in these past 10 months has made Cookie any more our daughter than she was the day she arrived at our home.
She's still doing great. Below is your humor for the day.
Dear Cookie, here are a few things you need to learn:
The toilet is not your personal splashing bowl.
You are not allowed to baptise your teddy bears in the toilet.
The kleenex are much more sanitary if you leave them in the box instead of pulling them all out.
The stairs are not begging you to climb them every time the baby gate is not secured.
I can cook a meal without you holding on to my leg.
All foods you put in your mouth do not first have to be spat out.
You do not have to taste everything I eat.
Your hollering in the car does not make us get home any faster.
It is best to pee before I take your diaper off to put you in the tub as opposed to peeing on the floor while standing next to the tub waiting to get in.
Giggling when we say "no" will not lessen the crime.
Mommy's earrings cannot be pulled out of her earlobes.
posted by No Longer In Crisis @ 11/08/2006 12:21:00 PM
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