Foster Update

We got an e-mail on Friday morning that our fostering license had been granted, and within just a few hours, we got a call from placement, and a one-week baby boy was delivered to our door. Baby J. is absolutely precious and so easy to love - and so tiny, only around 6lbs. He has his days and nights a little mixed up still, but he has been a perfect baby and has hardly made a peep since he arrived (although we are expecting him to find his voice any day now!).

It is such a strange experience to have a stranger drive to your house, chat for 5 minutes, drop off a baby, and drive away. It all happened very fast.

Scott and I had both been thinking that we would be getting an older infant closer to Javen's age, so it took a few hours for us to mentally transition back to the newborn days. I loved the newborn days, though, and am enjoying getting to do them again so soon.

We can't tell yet how well Javen is taking the new addition because despite sleeping GREAT the last few weeks, Javen decided the same day that the baby arrived (yesterday) that naps are overrated, and he has seriously tried my patience these last two days by being clingy and whiney and refusing to nap. He has been so bad that I put him to bed for the night at 5:30pm the last two nights. Since he started his nap boycott yesterday morning before we even knew we were getting a new baby, it is a comfort to me to know that this behavior is not a response to a new sibling. I'm hoping he is cutting a new tooth or something and that we will get our sweet, good-napper son back very soon. So that has been a little unexpected . . . the new baby is a breeze (so far) - aside from a bit less sleep for us, and it's our own baby that is wearing us out!

We consider it an honor and a privilege to have baby J. in our home and are overjoyed at the opportunity to take care of him and love on him for however many months he remains in our care.