Jose Update

Jose has been with us since the beginning of March (except for 9 days in April where a placement with aunt failed due to a parents actions- which brought him right back to us.)

He loves it here and continues to be such a very good boy. We just adore him and to be quite honest, I could totally keep him. He is part of a sibling group though- 6 kids total. 3 are together in one home, but the other 3, including him are all separate. The case worker approached up to consider taking in the other two. Hmmmm, 6 kids for me?! I dunno. His little sister is 2 and adorable. She'd bridge the gap between Mya & the boys. But his little brother, he's 11 months. I just can't have two babies that are less than 3 moths apart. They are both darling, all 6 kids are. They are all totally well behaved too. But honestly, I just can't do that full time or permanently. Luckily the foster mom who has the baby, loves him to death and hates to give him up. She is an awesome, religious lady, who home schools her own 3 kids and SHE is going to take the other two. The best part about it is that she lives within 10 minutes or less of the foster family that has the other 3 siblings. They will all be close now and can see each other on a more regular basis.

Jose likes the idea of living with his siblings, but doesn't like the idea of moving, AGAIN. Unless its home with mom or dad. (which unfortunately will probably not happen) I like him enough to not just pack his things and drop him off on the day selected by the case worker. It must be awful to have adults constantly making decisions that drastically affect your life. I knew we had a month before the move so I told Jose "you can pick when YOU are ready to move, ok". Although that isn't entirely true, I did plan to have some play dates with the new foster family in the meantime. I knew getting to know them and being comfortable in their house, he'd then be excited to move in with them and siblings and he actually WANT to move. Feeling like its his idea all along. Sneaky eh? ;)

We've only had one play date so far (due to schedule conflicts) but he loved it there. They have an awesome pool and TONS TONS TONS of Lego's, which he totally loves!! I hoped to get him over there again this week, but it hasn't happened yet. They live across town and its hard to find a whole day to do it.

The move is scheduled for July 1st. The following week, his 2 year old sister will also move in. We are all hoping if this case starts to lean toward adoption placements, this foster family will be able to keep all 3 as well as the other family. Keeping the kids, relatively close together.

If only there were a way to have all 6 together. Honestly if I didn't have 3 already, I would want to take them. They are all so stinkin' cute and well behaved. 8 girl, 7 boy, 6 Jose, 4 boy,2 girl, and almost 1 boy. I mean come on Jonathan, lets just buy a 12 passenger van and have 9 kids, how bad could it be right?! I wish 9 kids under the age of 8 wasn't such an insane idea....I would love to do it. We just can't.

With Jose still in town, just in Green Valley....we hope to still have play dates. He and Noah are super close and we'd love to see him again. Cheers! To our last week with Jose ;)

They had out Noah's baseball gear messing around and asked me to take their picture, they were "baseball ready" in Noah's words.