The baby...
IT'S A BOY!!! We had to withhold the information for a while, since the family didn't find out until this past weekend. The Wife is in the 23rd week and all is well. We have a 3D ultrasound scheduled in May, so that should be a fun experience. We also have a ridiculous amount of clothes and all things baby. It's a good thing we have a completely unused closet in our room... along with the better part of one of the closets that is in use. I'm just saying that a 5'x8' rug rolled up takes up a lot of space. The rug is possibly the best part of the whole thing... since we got the last one that the entire company had for sale. I am not at liberty to discuss the three giant rubbermaid containers of clothing at this time. Or the carseat. Or the diaper bag. Or the playmat. At this point... we're just counting down the days until the room is freed up for putting the nursery together. We're also waiting on all of the nursery furniture to arrive... but we have time.
The fosterlings...
They're still here. Court was today. Their dad filed a motion to have the reintegration expedited. I spoke with Gloria's supervisor (Gloria is out of town) and she said that court was "a fiasco" and a "hot mess". The judge thanked their dad's lawyer for wasting the court's time and then denied the motion. The whole ordeal lasted about three and a half hours and ended with basically the same result. Nothing. They're going to work on a new reintegration plan and the judge would like to see the kids placed with one parent or the other by the 4th of July. This is the same judge that said December. I guess things change over the course of nine months... at least four of which have been fairly unnecessary. Gloria's supervisor and the GAL discussed things after court (or during, I'm not sure) and they think that the most likely scenario is that one parent is given custody and the other is terminated. Otherwise, the parents will have to learn to work together in parenting and that just doesn't seem anywhere near possible at this point. They have another fifteen years of dealing with each other and haven't managed to get the last two correct.
Every time I write a new entry, I say that there will be more to come... then I take another month off. Maybe this will be the time it's true. I can at least manage to get some good pictures up on here... probably.
