Our First Visit with Baby Dora

If you've been following my posts today you know that we got to the County offices this morning early and had to wait around for a while before we checked in. Once we checked in we had to wait for Dora's social worker to come down and she came down about ten minutes after our scheduled time and no Foster mom and no Dora. The dreaded thing had happened. Dora was a no show. We waited for a while before SWD (Dora's social worker) called the FM (Rebecca too!) and found out that she thought we were meeting at her house! SWD said that she had a really full schedule today and it didn't sound like we were able to see her today. But when she came down from her office the second time after calling Rebecca she said that she was on her way! We waited, and waited and waited some more and still no Dora. Over an hour AFTER our scheduled time Rebecca comes rushing in with Dora on her hip! Dora is so small! She looked like a 9-12 month old baby on the Foster mom's hip. We went to a visitation room where we got to play with her. I was afraid that she would be nervous around us and not want to play with us, but I had been praying that that wouldn't happen and sure enough, she took to us right away. In fact, she took to Bryan first. She really seemed to like him a lot. We played with the helicopter we brought with us and she was really sharp and quick on picking things up. We played with her for an hour, but it felt like minutes. She is a sweetie pie with such a sweet personality. She loved to share and her smile lights up the room! She likes dolls, just like Cinderella and is practicing to be a mommy! The FM said that she prefers Asian food, particularly the noodles and can eat 2-3 slices of pizza!

I'll be seeing her Friday when I go with them to her speech appointment in Concord. That will be a weekly appointment that we'll have to go to because she's non-verbal. She said "ma" but that's it and I guess that's what she calls everyone. Bryan, Cinderella and I will all be able to visit with her over the weekend. This is the first time Cinderella will see her so you could be praying that it is a positive experience and that they enjoy each other. Cinderella kept asking if she could go with us today to see "D," but of course it was just us adults today.

We get to move forward and see her several times a week and the FM has been great. She basically said we could come anytime and since Dora has a nanny she doesn't even have to be home for us to come by! We should be seeing her about 2-3 times during the week and then also on the weekends. I'm not sure when the first time she'll spend the night is, but she'll for sure be staying with us April 14-17! It sounds like it will be about four weeks until she's living with us full time.

There is still the court date looming over our heads to terminate parental rights on April 20th so if you can all pray that things go well for us and that parental rights are terminated then so that we can move forward to adopt her I would appreciate it!