Chaos Is A Friend of Mine

Another Bittersweet Goodbye

Little Chief left us Tuesday to live with one of his relatives. It's a good move for him - I've met the relative a couple of times and she loves him a lot and will take very good care of him.

The thing I'll remember most about Chief was that he was the gruntiest baby ever. He grunted constantly - he sounded like an 80 year old man trying to get out of a chair. I've never heard a baby grunt like he did. Also, he only slept about 2 hours between feedings at night so even though I miss him, I really love getting full nights of sleep again.

Third Placement

We received another foster placement last Thursday (the 21st). A sweet two-day old baby boy who I will call Chief (just online, not in real life). We still have Cute-Bomb (formerly Bullfrog) so our house and van are busting at the seams with four children. I love it!

Chief is only going to be with us for a couple more weeks and then he is going to live with his grandma so I'm soaking up every minute that he's here - holding him and smelling his head whenever I get the chance. I really don't even mind that he only sleeps about an hour and half at a time at night because he's so darn sweet.

Chief looks a lot like my biological children - same eye and hair color - so whenever I take him out in public passersby assume that he's mine. Strangers are constantly stopping me to tell me that I look great for someone who just had a baby. I just smile and say thank you!

I've had a lot of people ask me if I would mind answering questions about foster parenting. I am ALWAYS happy to answer questions about it so if you have any fire away. The world can always use more foster parents - unfortunely.

Second Placement

We received a foster placement on Wednesday - a sweet, three month old baby boy who I will call Bullfrog (just on this blog; not in real life). He is what is called a "medically complex" or "medically fragile" child. He has some problems due to suffering cardiopulmonary arrest. I spent Wednesday and Thursday at the hospital with him learning how to give him feedings through a g-tube. He was discharged and I took him home Thursday afternoon. A home health nurse visited us this afternoon to check on him and see how he's doing. She'll be visiting twice a week. Then his social worker visited us; she'll be visiting once a week. We will also have an occupational therapist for him and some kind of visual therapy for him as he is almost completely blind. Then of course we also have court dates, doctors' appointments and visits with his mom. He has a very full calendar for such a little guy!