The kids are doing great here is a little update on them...
Soley- Soley is such a sweet loving girl, she is growing up so fast right before my eyes. Some days I feel like taking on our new children has been the best thing we could have done for her, and others I worry that it might have been to much. She loves her brother and sister. She had a rough start with Jalen but they now play together and really are starting to enjoy each other, that is not with out saying that they are still brother and sister and at any moment could pull each others hair out. But those moments are getting fewer. Soley has such a huge place in her heart with Mya! She loves that girl more then life it's self. Soley can make her laugh bigger and louder then anyone. There relationship is very special. Just the other day we were driving to Mya's vist (to see her dad) (it's a long drive, 40 min one way) and soley said... Mama, where did I used to do my visits with my real dad when I was little. You know those moments where you can't breath and you feel your heart stop, this was one of those. My eyes welled up with tears and I giggled a little at the same time. My sweet baby has so much going on in her little head, and she is trying to figure it all out. So I came to the conclusion that I could no longer give her the basic story of what's been going on. Now I did not go into detail and embellished a little so that I could help her understand what I wanted her to get. So I said... Soley daddy is your real daddy. Mya and Jalens mommies and daddys did not make good choices and they don't know how to be a good mommy and daddy so therefore they need to learn to make better choices and how to be a mom and dad. And when they do, we will have to let them go back with them, and if they can't learn then they will stay with us. WOW, that's a lot... And I asked her if she had any other questions and she said no she understood. So we will see! Soley is still taking Ballet and Gymnastics, she loves it and looks forward to it every week! She is in a recital in May, they are dancing to Beach Blanket Bingo! She is doing so well in preschool and knows all her letters, numbers, shapes, and can write her first and last name. She loves learning and is such a smart little girl. She thinks very logically. We are looking into schools for her for this up coming year or for Kindergarten, we are defiantly going to send her to a Classical Education School, which I am very excited about. There are really only three in Louisville and we have ruled one out. One offers a pre-k so if we choose that one she will go there starting in the fall.
Jalen- My sweet Jalen, he at times can be the most loving boy in the entire world, and at other moments he can deify you like no other! It's such a privilege to have a boy! For anyone who has girls they are so different! Jalen is adjusting so well! He has good days and bad days, but the progress that he has made is amazing! He is such a smart little boy he talks up a storm (18 months on April 9) He knows all his signs and will attempt to say any word you ask him, my favorite new word is Jesus. Jalen will now hold our hands at dinner to pray and always raises his hands up afterwords to say amen, very cute. His case is still very much up in the air, I thought that by now there would be no way he would be going back but after meeting with his social worker this month, they are maybe going to start visit back with mom and allow her to leave jail to see him and then go back! (YES INSANE!!!) He has not seen anyone in over 5 months now. I have really come to peace with our foster care issues as I know God is in control! SO we plan like they are here forever and take it day by day. I just signed Jalen up for preschool in the fall. We decided to send him to a very AMAZING preschool around Louisville because they also double as a therapeutic preschool. So there ratios are a maximum of 1-4 with three teachers in every room (2's are 10-3) and one teacher has her masters in Education and one teacher is a certified OT, DI etc... It's not a Christian school so I was a little worried about that, but it offers so much and is such a amazing school that we knew it was a perfect fit for him! So he will start in the fall. Jalen is a big boy, he wears 24-2t clothes, weighs almost 26 pounds, but he is short for his age. I know dad is over 6 feet but mom is like 5'3 so we will see :) He
has the blondest hair you have ever seen!
Mya- Our precious girl is doing amazing! She is tiny as can be... Weighs around 15 pounds and is such a peanut! She has been in first steps for about 3 months now and it's going great! Her speech is still a little behind but she is caught up or ahead on everything else. She wants to walk so bad and is such a climber! She has been crawling up the stairs, dishwasher tables chairs, anything for months. She is eating anything and everything and still takes her bottle very well! Her sleep is still pretty bad and up 3-4 times a night. She still visits weekly with her dad, and her case is still in limbo.
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