Our week started and we were just a couple in the process to adopt. On Wednesday we found out we were going to be parents of two small boys a fourteen month old and his three year old brother. On Friday we drove to Houston from Dallas to meet our sons the very next day. Wait it gets better, we met them for a few hours at the babies foster home then the fourteen month old came to spend the night with us that Saturday night. On Sunday we had to bring him back to his foster family so they could say their good-byes to him. That was so hard we only spent less than 24 hours with this little boy and he already had our heart.
On Monday morning we woke, packed the bags, checked out of the hotel, had our last breakfast before we took our sons home. Yep, that is right not a full 6 days after finding out we were going to be parents we were taking them home with us. We drove to the Houston CPS office with two empty car seats in the back. We walked in signed some papers and saw our three year old son again, he had a trash bag of clothes with him. He was just beautiful with curly dirty blonde hair and big brown eyes and a shy little smile. We handed him a stuffed animal and asked him if he would come home with us. What would we have done if he said no? Well luckily he said yes.
He walked to our car holding my hand and his stuffed animal in the other one. We buckled him in his little car seat and told him we were going to go for a ride to pick up his brother and take him home with us too. He was so happy that his brother was going to be living with him again. They had been living in different homes for thirteen months now and only got to see each other every other week for an hour at the CPS office. He just kept asking if his brother was really coming to live with him. That alone brought tears to my eyes, how this sweet little boy just wanted to be with his brother. His case worker said he did not talk the whole time he was in foster care, but as soon as he heard he was going to be living with his brother again was all he needed, he has not stopped talking yet.
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