Day 22 - Potty Time

We were with A alone today, which was fantastic. When we went to pick her up they put her on the potty before we could take her. This is the first time we have been there for this, apparently she had not gone during the last "peepee shift" (like I explained before they do this on a schedule). She also did not go this time so they sent some fresh tights with us just in case. When we were playing she decided that she wanted her socks off and shoes off. If anyone else was there they would have freaked out that we were letting her walk around bare foot but thank goodness no one else was. She then started pulling her tights off so I asked if she need to go potty, and she clearly wanted to, so I got the little baby potty out and she went and sat on it but again did not go. She decided that this was a fun game proceeded to do this 5 more times. It was strange but great since, again, it was showing that we would be there to take care of that basic need as well.

We had another new experience that was much more fun for us. I was carrying her and running around the room with Chris chasing us around the room. We have not heard A laugh this much since the 3rd day that we were with her. She reached a new level of loving and hugging us constantly. Chris and I were practically sweating from running around so much, but it was certainly worth it for our precious little A.

As you know we have court tomorrow morning. I am not all that nervous about this. We have a speech that we can read and we have heard from other families that it is not that bad. We were thinking that we would get to go see A in the afternoon since we knew that these other families did this on the day of their court. Unfortunately our coordinator said that we could not. I almost started crying in the car. I had it in my head that we had two more visits and learning that we only have one is completely heart breaking. I am just thankful that we had such a fun visit.