My blog ate my update…

So sorry that I am so bad at updating this thing! I really want to do a better job at this so that I can look back and see all the frustration and the joy that it has brought us!

So I guess it’s pretty obvious that we were finally approved as foster parents! We got the call on May 25, 2010, while we were on vacation, letting us know that we were finally approved. That Friday as we were packing up to head home from Floridia we got a call from placement about a little boy that we had to decline because we were 9 hours away from home.

Needless to say when we got home we went crazy washing clothes and linens for the nursery. Fast forward to June 9, when we got a call for a sibling group. We declined this placement because we really felt that our first placement should be 1 child since we had never had a child in our home. That night I was talking to a friend who reminded me to pray and make sure that that decision was not one made in fear because if so it wasn’t from the Lord. I prayed about it felt at peace, knowing that the next call was for the child God intended to be placed in our home.

The very next day, June 10, 2010 @ 1:30p.m. I received a call from the placement caseworker who started the call by saying “it’s me again, one of these days I am going to call and you are going to say yes” without her giving me any details about the child or situation I said “today is the day” when my phone rang and I saw that it wad DCS my heart jumped for joy because I knew that this was God’s intention for us, who we had been waiting for!

I was told of a 2 week old little girl who was 5 lbs 4 oz. I was told that she was born into a not so great situation but by the grace of God it seemed that she was healthy.

I rushed home to sterilize bottles, never would we have dreamed of our first placement being such a young child!

By 4 p.m. I was at our home by myself with the most beautiful little girl I have ever seen! Of course I wasn’t home alone for long! Many friends and families stopped by to meet our big blessing in a tiny package!

Today Shelby is 4 weeks old, and has been with us for exactly 2 weeks! The past 2 weeks have been a blur but full of joy! When I am up at 3 am feeding this little girl I can’t help but praise God for her, there is no doubt in my mind that this is what He created me for!

Shelby is healthy and happy, she makes eye contact when we talk to her and coos and grunts in response to us! She eats well (about 3 oz every 2.5 hours) and loves her beauty sleep! She not a huge fan of bath time and hates being changed but she is learning to tolerate both! She likes when Nestle kisses her feet and puts up with our kisses! She has the cutest grin and makes the funniest sounds! We are in love!

Thanks to everyone who has loved on us and prayed for us while we waited on this little girl! Thanks for all of the things that you have provided to help us make our house a home for her! I said to someone the other day that she is going to be spoiled and they told me that there is no such thing as a spoiled child… just a well loved child!

Please pray that she will continue to develop normally! Pray for her as she gets ready to start daycare on 7/12/10! Pray that the cyst on her head will go away on it’s own!