What the ?????

If that picture wasn't enough to make you fall out of your seat I don't know what will. About two weeks ago Dick Engar came up to me and asked if Tara and I were ready to have another baby. How do you respond to that one? Anyway, it seems that the daughter of Dick's secretary had recently had a baby boy and the child was in protective custody due to issues with Mommy and drugs. We wondered if we were interested in becoming foster parents until the legal issues surrounding the birth mom were resolved and we could adopt the baby boy. Man, what an opportunity.

We prayed and decided that this was supposed to happen. So, we're moving forward to see what life brings us. Kennedy is still a bit uncertain if she wants a little brother or not, but she really warmed up to him during our visit earlier tonight. It's hard to wrap the whole story into a few paragraphs of a blog entry, but we're applying to become foster parents with the idea of adopting the little boy in the next several months. We don't even know what we're going to call him, but right now the leading candidate is Alexander Brayden. We'll have to wait and see if it sticks or not.

We're not totally sure what happens next. We should have him in our custody by early next week, but there's still a chance that the little boy can be returned to his birth mother or his birth father. So, we'll be involved in multiple court hearing to determine if either birth parent is capable of raising the child, or if he's going to become our son. After visiting with him tonight I know that he should be with us. What a cute little guy. It's hard not to fall in love with a precious baby boy. What a crazy couple of weeks!!