On the evening of Sept 22nd we got an emergency call for a little one year old boy. I had to drive down town at 8:00 at night to the alley behind the ODJFS building in Cincinnati. I then had to walk to the front door to get a security guard to let me in where I waited for 20 minutes while the case worker prepared paperwork for our little one. We walked out side and I signed paperwork on top of his car in the back alley. All the while this little boy was in my arms and just quiet and curious.
By 9:15 pm I was driving back with a very tired and confused baby who drifted in and out of sleep. My husband and daughter had run out to the store to get him some essentials while I was picking him up. They were waiting, parcels in hand, when I arrived. By the time I got home he was completely out but getting him out of the car woke him immediately. I bathed him, got some pajamas on him that Lily had picked out and a giant bottle of milk which he drank down pretty quickly. He slept only 2 hours or so at a time and I had to sleep next to him most of the night.
It's been about a week now and he is doing really well and last night he slept through the night finally. He is teething and drooling but he is a pretty happy kid apart from that. The hard thing is that the roller coaster has already started. His Mom actually showed up in court today. Dad did not come. However, Mom has a friend that she wants to try to get cleared to take him. We will see where it all leads and we still don't know how long he will be with us. He is a very loved little boy in the mean time!! It is so hard not to get attached.
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