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Feb. 18th, 2009

09:49 pm - Adopting second child

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Phew, after a busy few days [info]amelia_petrol is now living with us. We started introductions with meeting her for the first time on Monday last week, and we've been increasingly involved in her care ever since. We picked her up to bring her here to her "forever home" at around 11:00 this morning. She's now placed with us, and (assuming nothing goes wrong) we can apply for the permanent adoption order in about three months time.
Introductions were tiring, and involved treks over to Hull every day, including a marathon 3.75 hour journey back through the snow on Thursday night last week, when Arras Hill East of Market Weighton was temporarily blocked. Grandparents snuck round on various occasions to meet their new granddaughter.
She's totally different to [info]evie_petrol, in that she's "quiet and placid" (as she was described to us in early documentation). She's quite content to amble about and play with stuff, and observes what's going on around her constantly.
She crashed out this evening without any hassles around 19:30 in her new bedroom. Let's hope she sleeps through.
[info]evie_petrol is coping with it reasonably well. She's currently probably a textbook case in the kind of mood swings a first child goes through when a second shows up, sometimes loving her new sister, other times being a bit annoyed she's no longer the centre of attention 100% of the time. Sometimes she wants to be the big girl, other times she regresses and wants to be a baby again.
Amelia's already met all the children that live on the close where I live, and been subjected to the screaming madhouse that our house sometimes becomes. She's fine with this: the foster parents where she spent her first year always had numerous children there. She's effectively been brought up to believe that live involves lots of people about and lots of noise.
So I'm now the father of two daughters. When it all gets a bit hormonal in 10 years time I know that the house WiFi reaches the summer house, so I can retire there with a laptop while fems scream at each other :-)

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From:[info]sarah_mum
Date:February 18th, 2009 10:01 pm (UTC)
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And in that summerhouse, you can practive the looming and forboding stance you'll need for the young men who'll come calling.
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From:[info]vin_petrol
Date:February 18th, 2009 10:06 pm (UTC)
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It'll be at times like that I'll wish we had something similar to the American right to own firearms. I'll always remember reading somewhere an article by an American dad who - whenever a young man came calling to see his daughter - would carefully show aforesaid young man his colossal collection of deadly firearms, along with his skilled marksman awards... ;-)
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From:[info]sarah_mum
Date:February 18th, 2009 10:11 pm (UTC)
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Before the law was tightened up, my Dad's shotgun used to live on a pair of coathooks over the stair door.
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From:[info]ayrton_nix
Date:February 18th, 2009 10:12 pm (UTC)
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Glad things are going smoothly so far. Can't wait to meet her :)
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From:[info]rainbowskye
Date:February 18th, 2009 10:23 pm (UTC)
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Hope it all continues to go well - she does look a real little sweetie!
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From:[info]gillywoo
Date:February 18th, 2009 10:26 pm (UTC)
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Great news. Congrats
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From:[info]scatterbeetle
Date:February 18th, 2009 10:35 pm (UTC)
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She sounds like an amazing child. And I am so happy for you all!
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From:[info]miss_wonderly
Date:February 18th, 2009 10:51 pm (UTC)
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Awww, I'm really glad it's going so well. Good luck to you and Trash and Evie!
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From:[info]rosamicula
Date:February 18th, 2009 11:09 pm (UTC)
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She sounds like a proto-geek! And looks like little poppet.
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From:[info]foxy76
Date:February 19th, 2009 11:37 am (UTC)
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I hope the transition and settling in goes well for you all :-)
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Date:February 19th, 2009 10:09 pm (UTC)

Congrats

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Really pleased to see/read that all is going well for the four of you in these early days together. What an astonishing amount of hair Amelia has! Hope it continues to go well. Please pass on our best wishes to Trash too. Eleanor, Chris, Adam and Davy
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From:[info]angryangeltoo
Date:February 19th, 2009 10:17 pm (UTC)

Rarr!!!

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Very fab, hope it all goes well :D
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From:[info]melancholyrose_
Date:February 19th, 2009 11:18 pm (UTC)
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Glad everything is going well :-)
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