J.J. Updates

These next 2 days will tell us more about J.J.'s sitch. In the morning we have his lawyer coming to our house. Yay.

The last time this lawyer and I had the pleasure of one another's company we parted with equal, although sugarcoated, annoyance with one another. When we were addressing the matter of why JJ's bio mom was being given the choice of pulling her son out of foster care to adopt him out to her friend, she told me she believes, "in the parent's choice with regards to their children".

I, too, believe in the parents right to make choices, "I absolutely agree that parents have a choice - a choice not to do drugs, drink, and endanger their children. That's the choice she had. She chose badly for her son. Why do you think she's capable of choosing the best thing for him now?"

Yeah...it pretty much went downhill from there.

Well, nowadays bio-mom is "choosing" some not-so-good things again, so I guess we'll see what Mrs-fancy-pants-lawyer says now.

After what's sure to be a stimulating visit with her, we're off to JJ's pediatrician to get him assessed for what I'm sure are seizures. He's always had some questionable episodes that concerned me, but they're increasing. And his caseworker (whom we love) has given us a heads-up on the bad mojo that went on in-utero for JJ.

Real bad mojo.

So, we need to be proactive about anything out of the norm for age-appropriate development. We may eventually be under the care of a pediatric neurologist. Whatever happens, I love that kid. He's my only boy whose first word was, "Mama". That's my boy, right there!

We'll get through whatever comes.

And then after that fun-filled day, we wake up and I head off to court. The judge wants bio-mom back to discuss JJ's case plan (which has already been changed to adoption) and see how the case is looking. Remember that we don't yet have "current care-taker status" and therefor have no legal leg to stand on when it comes to JJ. He's just a foster placement until he's been with us for 6 months. that's still 2 months away. We're relying on the state's apprehension to move kids unnecessarily. Especially when he's so stinkin' bonded to us.

Did I mention that I love that kid? What a cutie, huh?