Tired and emotional

Today Raina's SW came around to our house for the first LAC visit. Raina seemed surprised to see her at the door even if we had told her so many times. I think that she is someone who Raina has come to know quite well (unlike other children in Care, Raina has been fortunate enough to have kept the same SW the whole way through) but it must have been like old life and new life colliding! The visit went well; the SW seemed happy with everything. Our next LAC meeting is next week and we have them weekly for the first month and after that, visits reduce to once every three months until the Adoption Order is filed. We had also arranged for Raina's FC to call today to speak to Raina. We felt that Raina might benefit from speaking to her, even though she's too young to make sense of what's happening, we felt it important that Raina knows her FC is ok. The conversation went well. At the end of it, Raina went into Mummy Hannah's arms for a cuddle. The next two hours it was as if someone had switched her bad behaviour button to 'on mode'. She had melt down after melt down and Mummy Hannah even over heard her saying something that sounded distinctly like the F word. Oh my. We had a good chat (well, she's only 2 so Mummy Hannah did most of the talking.....) and after that she did seem to calm down and her behaviour improved. I explained to her that these times are hard and reassured her that it was okay to be upset and that everyone loved her. I asked if she understood and she said 'yes'. Again, how much she really does understand we can't be sure of, but talking about it did seem to help and we take that to be a positive sign for her ability to be able to cope with emotions in the future. A big day when your only 2 and have only lived with your forever family for 6 days. X x x