Looong day

Yesterday was a really long day for us.  We ended up having to drive back and forth to San Antonio twice, which is a little less than an hour each way.  First Sweet Pea had her last in the series of RSV shots at her pulmonologist's office.  That was actually the smoothest and relatively the quickest appointment we've had there so far.  Thankfully my mom went with us so she could sit in the backseat with Sweet Pea.  I've been trying to take Sweet Pea out on short car rides in town recently and it seems to be getting better, but those long drives are still hard on her and still only seem managable with someone in the backseat with her.  I know it's a bad habit to get in to, but we'll take whatever works right now.  Hours in the car with a screaming baby is unbearable.

Then Shannon took off work for the afternoon so we could take Sweet Pea to court.  It really was pretty uneventful like they'd said it would be, but I'm so glad we went.  Everyone thought Pea looked so adorable and could see such a huge improvement in how she's doing now compared to a few months ago.  No big decisions were made in court.  It's still a waiting game.  No one from her biological family was there at all, which we'd expected.  Bio mom's attorney wasn't even present, which does not look good for her if she is actually trying.  Afterward, everyone kept trying to reassure us that it looks like we'll get to keep her and to keep up the good work.  That's all good to hear, but again, there are no guarantees.  We have another court hearing scheduled for the middle of July and then parental termination for a week after that.  But that doesn't mean that mom won't get it together and get an extension before then to try to keep her rights.  It's definitely still so scary to imagine she could be taken away from us.  She is so much a part of our lives and our family already.  We did look like a family yesterday at court, not just names on a court document.  And that was worth all the driving and stress just to be able to be there for Sweet Pea.