"I told you so"

Yesterday (Friday) was busy as our days usually are - The kids had their last full day of 6th grade, I visited my Grandma, Shelby's respite worker came over and then...

Baby's adoption social worker came over for his much anticipated monthly visit. I was under the impression that he was making phone call after phone call trying to find this precious baby a forever family. How wrong was I!!! It turns out that he is waiting for people to find out about Baby and call him. Say what?!  For all the people who said they doubted he was doing anything to find Baby a home esp. since we have always said we will keep the babies however long it takes for them to find their happily ever afters. Friends told me Baby would be low man on the totem pole. He is safe with us, loved and getting the therapy/doctor's appointments he needs so why would the SW try hard to find him a home esp. if he is overworked and has other kids in more of a crisis situation?  Well, my friends can now say "I told you so." The SW has not made any phone calls, hasn't put Baby on any photolisting, etc. Apparently, there is an adoption fair once a month and Baby's picture and bio is in that binder that potential families can look at. That's it. Ugh.

After he left, we got ready for an early dinner, respite left, we dropped off Shelby at a church event for children with special needs they do once a month and Shelby made a new friend and had a blast.

Meanwhile, Shane, Steve, Baby and I went to a new fishing place and the allure of the river was too much for Shane - he quickly took everything off but his boxers and went swimming :)  Later, at a boat launch area, Shane made a new BFF - a black lab - that deemed Shane was his official tennis ball thrower and the lab was ridiculously cute getting Shane's attention. Baby adored the outside time, Steve tried fishing a couple different places and a few hours later discovered a tick had befriended him - ewww!!!

This morning, I was asking Steve about why he thinks Baby has a hard time lying flat on his back lately - it's like he can't handle his saliva anymore in that position and chokes/gags/flails his arms out. Steve's opinion - it might be the CP affecting his tongue and therefore his swallowing. :(