The First Few Weeks

Once Cameron was here, we had some legal "red-tape" to get through before we could go to court to make him ours officially. Here is how the days and weeks went after Cameron was born.
April 5, 2011 - We spent most of the day at the hospital visiting Cameron and his birthmom. We were also able to have Hannah come up and meet Cam and his birthmom. It was a great time to bond with him as well as open up the possibility to have communication with his birthmom in the future. One of the most special parts of the day was when we were able to get some pictures of Cameron with his birthmom and with us. These are pictures that we will always cherish. Here is our first shot as a family of four!

April 6, 2011 - Cameron was discharged from the hospital and we were able to see him at the Bethany offices for a short time before he headed off to interim care. In this particular case, Cameron will be in interim care for about two weeks. At the office, we met his interim mom and she is really great. She has five kids -- three biological and two adopted. We set up a visitation schedule for the next couple of weeks. It worked out that we could go every other day or so.
He is so long and skinny!!!
April 8, 2011 - We headed over to the interim home that Cameron is staying at to spend the morning as a family of four. It was a beautiful morning so we started off at the park. We had so much fun! Big sis Hannah had tons of fun exploring a new park and Cam slept in my new sling from my fabulous college girlfriends. We ate lunch and did a little shopping before we dropped him off and headed back home. It gets harder to leave everytime but we know this is only temporary.

Daddy and Cam at the park -- this is the same day as this post. April 12 & 14 - I took a 1/2 day leave both of these days so Tim and I could head over to spend a couple hours with Cameron. Each day we hung at the interim home for some cuddle time as well as did a little window shopping and out to eat. I love taking Cam with us as we run errands. We get lots of compliments on how cute he is. We think so too...but we may be a little biased!

April 16 - We went to visit Cam today as a family. Unfortunatly the weather wasn't quite as nice as last week so we decided to go to one of the area malls instead. We walked around and ate lunch and enjoyed spending some time together. Hannah is getting more and more excited about her baby brother. She wanted to help a lot today with anything and everything. She even let Cam have her "puppy" when he was crying. For those of you that know her, you know this is her favorite thing so we thought it was really sweet that she was sharing it. She is going to be a GREAT big sister! April 20 - Today was my last day of school for the year! Spring break starts tomorrow and we will be going to court next week so it was a great time to end my school year. My students were so sweet and even through me a surprise baby shower today. It was a really nice last day. After school, we headed over to see Cameron and got to bring a special person with us. Aunt Nee-Nee (Tim's sister Nikki) i is visiting for a few days of her spring break so she was able to meet Cam today. We picked him up and went to dinner and did a little shopping. I'm glad she was here and able to snuggle with him some! April 21 - Today is my first offical day of spring break so what better way to spend it than with Cameron. And to make the day even better, Nikki and my mom went over with me! My mom got to see Cam in the hospital, but this was the first time she got to hold him. She was very excited! We picked Cam up and headed to Target for some last minute Easter goodies and some baby goodies as well. After lunch, it was time for Nikki to head back to Wisconsin. We are so thankful she was able to come down for a few days! My mom and I took Cameron back to his interim home and headed back to Illinois. We are getting very close to our court date and can't wait to have him home for good!