Saturday, June 27, 2015

Busy Rainy Saturday

There is a silver lining to having a pair of kids out of a greater sibling group.  A comrade that is the foster parent of a sibling.  We have been so fortunate that Big Sister's foster mom likes to get together.  We met last night in a local park for pizza and some play time for the girls.  Since she has been fostering kids for so long she knows so many of the answers and we are finding that some of the answers to our questions that were given by our licensing worker may have been incorrect!  We will have to have some conversations with our case worker to find out some policies.

While waiting at the park for Big Sister, Sissy met a little girl and was playing very nicely.  Come to find out, this little one lives just down the street from us!  Interesting as well is that they are in the process of becoming foster parents as well.  Sounds like their process is going pretty smoothly and they are going with another very reputable agency.  Hopefully we are able to visit more because Sissy and the little one played so well.

We intended to maybe join Big Sister for the downtown movie, but Bug was way too sleepy.  We will get together with them again soon.

This morning was great in that the girls slept until 8!  We then went downstairs and I had them "help" me make eggs for breakfast.  Their food patience is better if they help.  After breakfast it was a normal, but busy day.  We had a lot planned, and we were unsure of how this would go.  I imagine our day would be difficult for a typical family, much less a foster family.

Sissy and I dashed out to get a high-back booster seat or two for her.  We need to start using both vehicles to transport the girls next week (I drop off and Squirrel picks up from school).  Sissy was very excited to be able to go shopping with me.  As we left it put Bug into a grand melt-down.  We need to continue to do the separation time.  I feel like we are doing immersion therapy or something!
Once at the store we found the seat, but of course, they only had one.  We go to the foster closet again tomorrow so w e will see if they have one, otherwise we will find another store.  Sissy and I also got some flour so we can really practice patience with food and make some bread or rolls.

Next was home where we gathered and then walked to a neighborhood picnic.  Squirrel and I don't normally go to all the events but we are trying to push the girls into many new situations.  Sissy often requests to "go home" so we are trying to make her more comfortable in public.  At the picnic we met a police officer that was kind and we were able to once again press that they are helper people.  We had some hot dogs and we played with more new kids!  It is great that every time we seem more and more willing to play with others.

After dogs we walked back home and loaded up into the truck.  The duo was very excited as this was their first ride in the truck.  We picked up a piano bench to be our shoe spot in our front door and then headed to a party.

The party was not met with the most enthusiasm, but the girls settled in.  There were a lot of older kids so they watched what was happening.  Eventually they did decide to play outside in the gentle rain.  They felt so lucky as we allowed them to have orange pop, chips, and cookies! This did however ruin our dinner.

We ended up leaving when Sissy pooped her pants.  We have had no successful tries with this.  I took her in the house and put "baby" diapers on her instead of her underwear.  She wanted nothing to do with it and cried and fussed and we immediately packed up and left the party.  We had been there a while and were thinking of leaving, but this made it clear.  Sissy was very upset to be missing the party and promised to not poop her pants anymore.  I didn't enjoy not being able to console her, and even pushing her to her crying, but I can't be continuing to change her pants, especially when she pees in the potty all the time now.

For the first time in a month we were able to have dinner with the neighbors.  The girls all played well together, none of the three really ate, but they did so well until... yeap, Sissy pooped her pants.  She and I stomped off home and changed her and this time really did put a baby diaper on her (the previous was a pull up).  We went and played at the neighbors again for a little then came home for our bubble baths, books, and bed.

Not really a lot out of the ordinary today.  We were pretty much like a typical family.  It took us four weeks to get here, but I think it is all falling into place.

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