Introductions - Day 5

Introductions - Day 5 Raina is in our house, sat on the floor happily playing with her toys and amusing herself. Mummy Ruth is upstairs and I am watching our daughter playing in her new home. The FC and her youngest daughter brought Raina over to see her new forever home this morning and have headed off to do some shopping for a few hours. This is weird and so lovely as this feels like what the rest of our lives could be like; normal family stuff.  I went to pick up Raina, the FC and her daughter from the train station. Was almost late, faffing around putting Raina's car seat in (was breaking into a sweat). Raina met me with a smile and a hug which was nice.  When we got to the house, Mummy Ruth met Raina at the door and Raina went straight into the usual routine of shoes and jacket off. She explored for about 15 minutes. She liked her bedroom "wow!".  We had spent some time yesterday adorning the house with some familiar toys from the FC's house. This seemed to really help Raina, as there were some familiar objects dotted around the place. The FC daughter came upstairs with  Raina and I asked her what she thought: she said "Raina's going to love it". Phew. The seal of approval, brilliant. Also good knowing that the FC's daughter is happy with our home and can see that Raina will have a nice house to live in and be looked after.  Raina explored all the rooms and found some clothes in the drawers in her bedroom which a friend had passed down to us for Raina. Our friend gave us a pink tutu.   Raina was desperate to wear it; she wore it all afternoon. Mummy Hannah had put in an old pair of sunglasses into Raina's toy box and she wore them most of the afternoon too!  We played, did dressing up, drawing and dancing. Mummy Hannah made everyone lunch and we sat together at the dining table to eat. We have copied a lot of the food that we have seen her eating at the FC's house; so it was Ham sandwiches all round. (although Raina said "fish!" when she examined her sandwich!!!). Pretty much a 10 out of 10 day.