First big announcement: This is no longer our adoption blog, it is now our official family blog!
Yesterday Jayme officially moved in and it was one of the happiest days in our lives.
Joshua had taken the day off to ensure that everything was prepared and Anthony headed into work for the morning. At 12:30pm Joshua picked Anthony up and we drove out towards Jayme’s school. Josh though the pickup was at 1:00pm but it was really at 1:30pm so we had time for lunch at our favorite Chinese restaurant. After a great lunch we headed over to Jayme’s school where we were to met him for the hand off. We got there about 10 minutes early so we waited in the office.
About 20 minutes later (running on Jayme time) he arrived with his therapist and his caseworker. All five us met in the hallway and Jayme stated he wanted to get into our car now and go to his new home right away. So the three of us piled in the car and the others followed with all of his stuff.
We parked outside and entered the house together through the front door. He very quickly started exploring until he found his room. At which point he started his own inventory of his room.
A few minutes later his Caseworker and Therapist arrived with his stuff and Anthony headed out to help them bring it all in. Some of this stuff had been stored in the foster parent’s garage and needed inspecting as some of it had a small hint of mold on them. He hadn’t been there long enough for them to unpack him completely.
After a short tour of the house, Jayme told his caseworker and therapist that they should leave now. So they did, pretty quickly. This came as a bit of a shock to us as we had expected them to want to watch and supervise for a while.
As Jayme played with his new toys, Joshua and Anthony unpacked all of Jayme’s stuff.
We decided to wash and inventory his clothing first. Most of his clothing was dirty (well kid dirty) and for some reason he only had 3 pairs of very dirty socks.
So as the clothing washed, Sam and Joshua did a quick trip to Target and picked up some new underwear and socks! A much bigger clothing shopping trip will happen this weekend for sure.
We had pizza for dinner, as this was part of the plan we had made with Jayme the day before.
Dinner with Jayme was short, he quickly inhaled 2 small slices and announced he was all done and wanted to play upstairs with his toys. About 5 minutes later he came back as he remembered we were going to have cookies for dessert.
Then about 30 minutes later he was hungry again, which came as a shock to no one but him.
We then watched an episode of Chuggington (Jayme LOVES trains) then headed upstairs for bath time.
Anthony started the bathtub and soon we had a naked little boy running round getting very excited about taking a bubble bath.
Bedtime was a bit of struggle for Jayme. He was just so hyper and excited about the move and the excitement held all the way until bedtime.
At first he was very excited to get into his new Thomas the Train pajamas and rushed to climb up to the top of his new bunk bed. But once under the covers, the reality that the day was over became a bit much for him. Anthony said goodnight and gave him a hug and kiss and Josh stayed and read him two bedtime stories.
A few minutes later Jayme came out of his bedroom, afraid to be alone. So Anthony grabbed his iPad and took the bottom bunk. In all it took about 30-40 minutes and several failed attempts for Jayme to make it to sleep.
Then at 2:00am we had a little visitor crawling into our bed between us. He had a nightmare and was scared. Very neat bonding experience and shows us that he trusts us completely to meet his needs.