That Sweet Baby Smell

The day after I wrote about longing for a third kid to be placed with us? We got the call we could say yes to! Was it for a child within our age range? Not even a little bit. Was it a kid with medical issues? Nope – thankfully she’s healthy. Did we say yes anyway? Yes we did.

Check out those delicious rolls of baby fat!

Of course the timing stinks. I have a very important hearing today at which I will represent three kids who deserve me at my lawyer best. And with a new placement daycare isn’t an option until we’ve gotten her cleared by the doctor and gotten her vaccine records. I can’t take her to the doctor today because of the hearing and Seth is working and I needed child care all of a sudden.

And our amazing network of support came through like always. Our next door neighbors rock – we’ve adored them ever since they moved in years ago. We dog and cat and fish sit for them whenever they go out of town, and they have babysat for us when we were in a bind before. And god bless them, they’re taking baby this afternoon so I can do my hearing!

Then Monday I have to find someone to cover a court appearance for me. I’m sure I’ll find someone. I hope. So then I can take babe to the doctor so she can start at our amazing daycare! The daycare provider loooooooves Tiny and told us she’d take any kid we bring her. She’s taking an 8 month old with practically no notice. That’s freaking amazing. Most places can’t take little ones and it’s HARD to find good daycare but hot diggety, we sure found it!

It takes a village folks. And we have a village. I get teary thinking about how amazing our support network is.

So why did we say yes to an infant when we were looking for an elementary school age child? 1) my bleeding heart, 2) baby smell, 3) I sweet talked Seth into agreeing to it. #3 was not easy. I begged. He ultimately wanted to know if I was saying yes just because I desperately wanted a third child or if I was saying yes because I felt in my gut like this was the right one to say yes to. That was a hard question to answer but ultimately I decided it was the latter. She’s not a medical case, she’s not elementary school age. We are in diaper land for a long time to come again. Tiny is jealous. But I felt like this baby was meant to come here. So Seth said yes and I called the county back and said yes and here we are!

Baby is a sweet creature. She’s good natured so far. And sweet baby Jesus, she sleeeeeeps. She woke up at midnight and fussed for a minute and went back to sleep. She woke at 5 for a bottle and went back to sleep and is still sleeping. Say a prayer this is a trend and she turns out to be a baby who likes to sleep through the night on the regular!

So that’s our update! Wish me lots of luck juggling infant and toddler and work today. I need it! And wish us luck that Kiddo decides not to be super jealous of the baby, too.