Where is My Sunshine - First Post Placement Visit

Today we had our first post placement visit with our social worker. We slept in until 10am. I fed Hannah some breakfast while Daddy tried to straighten up the house. The last time the social worker was here two years ago was the most organized and clean the house has ever been. Today... not so much. Hannah tried some mandarin oranges with breakfast and made a horrible face, not enjoying the sour citrus taste. She was velcro baby again today and I couldn't put her down with out a crying fit starting. When I finally had to jump into the shower with the social worker on the way she screamed and cried the whole time even through Daddy was holding her. She was so snotty that Kevin had to change her clothes. The social worker arrived as I was getting out of the shower and she got to see Hannah all worked up. We think post-sickness and teething pain is what's causing this new attitude. Her fingers are in her mouth a lot more than ever before, and she'll just start crying suddenly for no apparent reason.

If we're still having issues a month or two from now we'll consult an attachment therapist in Indianapolis, but for now... we're just do a lot of holding, a lot of Tylenol, deal with the teething, and Daddy will work on finding ways to distract Hannah from being upset that Mama is gone and/or just can't hold her all of the time. If Hannah acted like this when we got her... we'd think normal post-adoption grief. Instead we had four weeks of smiling, curious, and happy sunshine baby who suddenly became this very different "touch me not" and "Mama's got to hold me all of the time" girl who won't even let me lay her down to change her diaper with out screaming her head off. I miss My Sunshine. I wish I could see a lot more of that dimpled smile again.

I sing to you when I pick you up out of your crib in the morning. "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are gray."

After some Tylenol and a long nap, she was much better tonight. She ate more than I've ever seen her eat before (baby food macaroni tomato dinner, baby food green beans, some puffs, 1/3 of a banana, and a few bites of beans from the ham and beans that we had for dinner). She watched Kevin make corn bread and picked up the eggs out of the carton to hand over to Daddy. I'm trying to stay out of the way while Hannah and Daddy are playing and dancing around to BabyTV channel music.

For those of you who use FotoFusion like me for digital scrapbooking, Kissed Studio is having a sweetheart sale until February 16th where their template packs are 50% off. Templates are nice because they give you a jump start when making a page. I really like the Kissed Studio signature packs made by popular digital scrapbooking kit artists, mostly because I like to look at the examples of what they've made with the templates. Kissed Studio is the only place that I have found FotoFusion templates for sale, although people who use Adobe Photoshop can purchase templates from countless retailers. If anyone knows other places to purchase FotoFusion digital scrapbooking templates, please let me know.

I'm working on scrapping the photo pages for our first post placement report, and I'll post them here as they are completed.