This is the week! Thursday morning we have to be at the county prosecutor's office in the wee hours for a briefing before court. I believe he wants to meet us and talk to us about O and see how he's doing with us. I am so anxious; I can hardly stand it!

How is he doing?? He is doing GREAT! I am simply amazed by how well he is doing.

How are we doing?? We are learning and some days are a struggle. He is a good kid for having no direction previously in his life. It is hard to have enough patience some days though. We are having to teach him so much, even the very basic things like flushing the toilet every time he goes or picking up things or even not walking up and grabbing something from someone. All day long we have to be ON and it's exhausting.

I am not complaining, don't get me wrong, I'm just stating the facts. E worked just 3 days this week and he was with O the other 4. I was out of town for work yesterday and when I got home I had to take over. E was whipped and said "they spent too much time together this past week." I laughed but I knew what he meant. It's hard to be so diligent. Like right now I'm making dinner and trying to get him pick up all his art things off the table. (He's super artistic and musical and not into sports or trucks at all) Anyway, it's "O, put your markers in their box. O, put your markers in their box. O, put your markers in their box!!" Then we repeat with crayons and the scissors and the glue stick and his papers and his coloring books....it's like that all. day. long. I love it, I do, and I praise him like he just cured cancer when he does it within a couple times of asking him. Like I said, diligence and being constantly on. Every day he learns and does a bit better.

One thing we didn't need to teach him was his basic manners. He has said please and thank you and may I ever since he arrived. He had a 2 week unit at daycare last month on manners and he cleaned up on the reward chart. He got a sticker every time he displayed good manners and he kicked butt over the other kids, LOL.

Anyway, things are good here. We're still waiting to hear on our previous 2 boys and their futures. They are still leaning towards moving C to his dad's and hopefully we can get D back. I have my qualms about being involved with his mother for the rest of our lives but I do want what is best for D. We had such good cooperation with C's dad too that the boys would still be able to be in contact and have holiday and summer visits. I want them to stay connected. The next hearing for their case is sometime in July. I can hold out on that case because O keeps me hopping so much.

We have our first camping trip starting after court on Thursday and O is so excited! I'm having trouble convincing him that he doesn't need to take all of his worldly possessions with, though.

That's it for now! My goal is to post once a week from here on out. Don't hold me to it too strongly!