Afternoon visit January 31, 2011

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We picked up “O” after our meeting with CPS/whole team around 12:30. She was a bit more somber/weepy today. She's definitely sensing things and we all decided that we'd do an overnighter this Wed night. Her social story book about her story/adoption/us/foster family will be introduced soon as well. Mika will have a talk with her about that she is not her forever mommy, even though she will love her forever. She will explain that WE are her forever mommy and daddy. I dont' envy her that talk...it is going to be very hard.

We snuggled a lot today, did some park time, and sang in the car. She already knows a lot of the lyrics to a Tom Freund children's album. It's a really good album, by the way, not an annoying kid's album, but good music with fun tunes and lyrics.

Pray that the overnighter doesn't stress her out too much. We had to have cuddle time a lot on her special cuddle couch, to make her feel safe. I think we'll be doing a lot of that in the next few weeks.

joni