We got selected! Sorta.....

Walks on the beach with just Caton and Daddy while Mommy holds sweet little Georgi are likely to be a thing of the past. We have been initially chosen (okay, actually, we were 2nd choice when the 1st choice people became unavailable) for a sibling group of 3. We are one of a few families initially chosen, so we aren't the definite choice. They are gorgeous Hispanic children ages 6, 9 and 11. The middle is a boy and the youngest and oldest are girls. Here's a summary of their description and almost the ONLY information we have besides some photos:

" Enjoy interacting with one another and other children and able to express themselves in positive ways. They each have lots of talent, good grades, are active and can accomplish many wonderful things if they just have a family who enjoys communicating, playing games with them, is active in their hobbies and will encourage them".

With a description like that, who wouldn't want these kids! And there is likely more to the story, but it's a good starting place! There is a meeting between the CPS workers and our agent advocate on April 14. At this meeting the agents for each family pre-selected will advocate for their family and express why their family is the best choice and ask specific questions that we would want to know. We are supposed to give them a list of questions and a photo book that expresses the nature of our family. It's such a huge task to think of a few questions we want to know about them. How do you narrow it down? Here's a few I have come up with:

1. Any aggression toward younger kids?
2. What's the worst or most troublesome thing each kid has done?
3. What is the makeup of the current foster placement? How many kids, etc?
4. How do they feel about being adopted?
5. Have any of them shown a problem with attachment?
6. Faith background? Attending church and what kind? Enjoy it or just go-along?
7. What talents, specifically, does each posses?

And none of these questions are deal breakers (unless they have burned a house down), more just curiosity so we can start daydreaming about the family dynamics.

If we are selected after this meeting, we will read their file, then wait for a month or so until all of their latest psych-evals are completed and then start visiting the kids.

They will have to live with us for 6 months before the adoption can be consummated, but there shouldn't be any road blocks since parents rights were terminated last July and no family members have come forward.

Exciting stuff. Please pray for these kids, that their advocates will place them with the family that will lead them to Christ most effectively.