First court appearance for the baby

On Wednesday we had to be in court on a hearing regarding the baby we wish to adopt. I told you a bit about this baby in Look what the stork dropped in our bassinet.

This baby has many who love her and want to take care of her. There is an aunt and uncle who want to adopt her and there is also her brothers ( the boys we adopted) who also want her. Of course we want her too.

DCFS social workers a few weeks before this court case made us change the visitation schedule we had with the aunt and uncle. We have custody of the baby and were going bi-weekly visits to the aunt and uncle. As you see in the other post it was about Christmas time and things were busy so every other week was not possible. The aunt and uncle seemed to understand the situation and tollerated schedule conflicts. Since Dec 5th we had 5 visits with them up to Feb 23rd. On Feb 23rd the baby’s social worker came by to talk about visitation because the aunt and uncle complained they only get an hour per visit and have to drive all the way up to us. The drive part was true as we had vehicle trouble but the visits were 2 hours minimum.

On Tuesday she calls us and tells us that we will hand over the baby for an overnigtht visit at 10am Saturday. As you could imagine this is not what we want as adoptive parents.

In court the judge blasted the DCFS attorney with words to the effect of “why are my orders not being followed?”.

End result is the Judge telling the aunt and uncle that the court does not see it would be in the best interest of the baby to be placed with them and that it would be on her best interest to be place her with the siblings which are the boys we adopted. She also clarified that she wants only once a month day visits.

Seeing the Judges wishes in this case gives us hope that we will be able to keep her. Please keep us in your prayers as this is long from over but for now we will just love and care for this little one.

Until the next time,

Thirteen