Well 3 months has passed since my last post. We still have J, but now we have 2 more foster children. Things with J have pretty much stayed the same. No news is good news I guess. His BM has been admitted to the hospital a couple of times and been unable to make her visits and we are told it is no fault but her own so that can only be one of two things, she is not taking her medication or she is taking non prescription drugs if you know what I mean.
Our 2 new foster children are brothers who are 4 and 6. We will call the 4 year old N and the 6 year old will be X. We actually received a call on September 10th and our foster care specialist asked us if we would be interested in taking these 2 boys. We said we would like more information, but we would consider it. We got a call back and they told us they had already found a bilingual home for the boys, because we are not bilingual, however my parents are so we are considered for bilingual children if there are no other alternatives because my parents live behind us so the children would have Spanish exposure. Anywho, long story short the bilingual home fell through and on September 12th we were asked to take these boys and I had prayed about it that if the Lord wanted us to have these boys they would come to our home and so we had to say yes, because the Lord was definitely at work especially since there was another home in the process. That was the only catch the boys had to be moved ASAP so they would have to come to our home that very evening. I had a work outing to go see Wicked so my husband and my parents received the boys. When I got home that night the boys were already in bed so I could hardly sleep because I was soo excited to meet them. I asked my husband a bazillion questions about them, but I had to see them for myself. I did ask my husband if they asked if either of them wet the bed and they had not, so sure enough when we woke up the next morning the little one N had wet the bed. So began our journey with X and N!!!!
We have had X & N for over 2 months now and have done the whole gammit of check-ups ie: shots, dentist, eyes. X was 2 years behind on his shots and N was 2 months behind. We thought only N would have a problem with his eyes because he has a crossed eye, but it turns out X has 20/50 vision and needs bifocals!!! Remember he just turned 6. Anywho, we are finding a lot out about X that we could not tell at first. We recently found out he was in a car accident when he was 2 and N was 2 months. X, however got the brunt of the accident and had moderate brain trauma, a broken pelvis and a broken humorous. He was in the hospital for a month and then in rehabilitation for a month and now we find out he has had an IEP done and Occupational therapy that he should be having as well as speech/language therapy he should be having. At first we thought maybe he was just neglected and no one ever worked with him on numbers and letters and getting dressed, until now we see N passing him up on all of the same things they are learning at school.
to be continued . . .
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