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Daddyo and his antics…
We were doing the dishes tonight and he bumped me out of his way to reach something.
Me: Don’t let me get in your way or anything
him: that’s what you always do to me
Me: nuh – uh. I do it like this (pushing him… a little) Besides, two wrongs don’t make a right.
Him: I need to start going first then
And Mathew rolled over, tummy to back, for the first time on Monday. He is two months old.
Court Report Post
Posted August 21st, 2008 at 2:11 pm. 9 comments
I had to password the court report post. If you don’t have the password, you can email me. Or just leave a comment here and include your email address.
Protected: Court is now in session…
Posted August 21st, 2008 at 2:10 pm. 12 comments
Fasttrack
Posted August 20th, 2008 at 3:28 pm. 4 comments
Wow!! We got fast track….trial date will be in 6 months. Birthparents have a severely ripped butthole. More to come.
they are here
Posted August 20th, 2008 at 2:21 pm. Add a comment
birthparents are in the house. takes a lot of nerve to show up after doing nothing!!!!!
more to come
Court
Posted August 20th, 2008 at 10:43 am. Add a comment
Well, we’re off again. Heading out to NB for court and praying for a Carter trial date! I’ll post again after we get the “final results!”
Sugar?
Posted August 19th, 2008 at 4:07 pm. 2 comments
Yesterday we were at Burger King and the kids were playing. Carter usually makes friends with all the kids and especially likes playing with the bigger boys.
He came running up to me and told me that the two boys were being mean. I said, “I’m sure they are just playing, what are they doing that is mean?” He said they were calling him names. In order to grasp the full picture here, I have to tell you that the two other boys were hispanic. So Carter told me they were calling him “sugar.” And I laughed uncontrollably. I could be totally wrong, but I am assuming they were calling him sugar because he is so white and they were very brown. these boys were old enough to not be calling him that just being silly.
It was funny. I told Carter that they must think he is really sweet because sugar is very sweet. So he ran off to play and not long after I noticed the boys’ dad giving them a stern talking to. And then Carter was playing by them again and I heard him say in a loud and accusing voice, “ICE CREAM!” I almost peed my pants. I guess since they called him sugar, he called them ice cream and thought he was really sticking it to them.
It was very funny.
New Meds?
Posted August 19th, 2008 at 3:40 pm. Add a comment
Could it be that the new medication actually makes Carter sweeter than normal? Sometimes i wonder if his poor little brain just makes him so messed when not medicated, that he really can’t focus enough to do the things he wants to do….. like be nice to his sister. He’s not always mean to her, they get a long fairly well, but today he has been exceptionally sweet. Nurturing. Kind. Sharing his batman costume and helping her put it on – WHICH IS SACRED to him.
She must not be feeling well because she has gone to lay in her bed three times this morning; perhaps she just wanted her pappy for a while and knows she has to be there to have it. Anyway, the last time Carter went with her and covered her up. He turned her light off and brought a small basket of toys in there for “when she wakes up.” Then he went a got a bible book and read her a story. Finally, he pulled her little princess chair up next to the bed and sat down, saying, “I’m just going to sit right here with Gracey so I can be here when she wakes up. I won’t even talk while she’s going to sleep.”
WHAT? He has such a precious little heart and always has. Maybe it is just easier for him to act on it when his brain isn’t all scrambled up? Or maybe it’s just a good day? Who knows. But I’ll take it. They are right now playing beautifully in the play room and have not been asked to stay in there… but they are. He is talking to her and lining out things for her to do… “first this and then you that… then this and then that…” And she’s smiling and eating up the attention she craves from her “big broder”.
In the meantime, I have gotten tons of laundry done. 
Zero Tolerance
Posted August 19th, 2008 at 2:19 pm. Add a comment
So at Carter’s idiot doctor’s office, there is a sign on the wall that reads “violence will not be tolerated.” I just may have to test that the next time we see him.
The good news is I do feel like we are moving in the right direction… but ask me again in a few days.
When i talked to the case worker yesterday, she said that the Judge should set the trial date for 6 months – I don’t know if that means he’ll set it 6 months from now or for when Mathew’s been in care for six months. We’ll see.
I’m praying he’ll set it for the point at which Mathew has been in care for 4 months.