I wanted to bring you up-to-date on what’s going on with Alex, Bella, Chance and me. We’ve been busy. Bringing Chance into our home has been an absolute JOY… and, honestly a bit taxing as well. Going from just Alex and me to a family of five (four plus “Cookie”) has been a major transition!
Roberta has been with us for a while now and she just keeps saying she can’t believe how fast Dub and Chance have learned sign language. She says it took her a while to catch on to what Dub was doing… it seems he’s been teaching Chance the Spanish word as well as English for everything they learn to sign. So, when they learned to sign “hand” they also learned it was “mano” in Spanish. Chance is crazy about Dub and they’ve become great friends.
“Cookie” has officially adopted Chance. She no longer sleeps in her crate – just gets in bed with Chance every night and that’s all there is to it. They’re never far apart.
We took Chance to the St. Luke’s Ear Institute and had him evaluated. They say he’s a good candidate for cochlear implants… but, of course they can’t do anything for him because we’re “only his foster parents”. The State says they can’t authorize “significant medical procedures” unless/until they have parental approval – and they haven’t been able to locate Chance’s parents.
Long story short, we’ve gotten our attorney involved and she’s recommended we hire a private investigator to try to locate Chance’s mother. We’ve done that and we’ll keep you posted.
Meanwhile, we’re all headed to Table Rock this weekend. The kids are super excited about it and Alex and I think a few days in the Ozarks just may be the break we all need. Stay well and happy.
xoxo Callum and Alex (and Bella and Chance and Cookie 🙂 )