Nathan 2

[sumbirdy]

Okay, haven't been here in a while (on this thread anyway). So here's some new pics we just took. About everything else I'm not real sure what's happening at the moment but I will update when it's all over.

[sumbirdy]

Well...Good news. They had a court date yesterday to see who would get Nathan during the divorce and Stephanie didn't even show. Charles got full temporary custody ( ) until April when it will come up again. Stephanie gets supervised visitation for 3 hours every Saturday.

Attached is some pics I took of Nathan at the park last Saturday.

[sumbirdy]

Here's some more...

[Catty1]

Good news! THAT will look really good when the final custody decision is made...she wants custody and doesn't even show for the HEARING. WOO HOO!
Glad the visitation is supervised, too.

How is Charles these days?

Those pics are SOOOO cute! Nathan is in the best place!

[sumbirdy]

Charles is actually doing a lot better than he was. Getting away from her abuse did wonders for both him and Nathan. (Nathan is back to being his happy self-aside from a few tantrums. He's back to just waking up once a night-and sometimes he'll sleep through the night. He is walking excellent now and just learned how to walk backwards today!)
But Charles is great and he was VERY happy yesterday when he got custody (as was everyone else)

[sumbirdy]

Well, she didn't show up for her visitation today...hmmm....I really didn't expect her to though

[jennielynn1970]

I'm glad things are going better for Nathan and Charles. Looks like Stephanie is just doing all the damage to herself at this point by not showing up to court dates or for visitation. Just make sure to document everything so that you can go back and say this is when she was supposed to be here, we called to confirm it (or whatever), and she never showed. Just so she can't say that you didn't make nathan available for her to see. Gotta love those manipulative types.

[sumbirdy]

I'm glad things are going better for Nathan and Charles. Looks like Stephanie is just doing all the damage to herself at this point by not showing up to court dates or for visitation. Just make sure to document everything so that you can go back and say this is when she was supposed to be here, we called to confirm it (or whatever), and she never showed. Just so she can't say that you didn't make nathan available for her to see. Gotta love those manipulative types.

Yep, we wrote down on the calendar "didn't show"

It was up to her to contact us since the visitation is at our house. She never called.

[sumbirdy]

I was browsing through my computer and found this pic of Nathan. He was about 2 weeks old. (That's Charles holding him) It's hard to picture him now as that little guy who's 0-3 months clothes were all too big for him. He's grown up so fast.

[Genny]

Hey, I have been reading about Nathan for a long time now , just never replied back before, but I just wanted to tell you that I'm glad you and your family have him now. He is so beautiful and looks so happy in all the photos you sent.

[sumbirdy]

Hey, I have been reading about Nathan for a long time now , just never replied back before, but I just wanted to tell you that I'm glad you and your family have him now. He is so beautiful and looks so happy in all the photos you sent.

Thank you, we are so very happy he is with us too.

[sumbirdy]

Sleeping in his car seat



Bath time!
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[sumbirdy]

These pics were taken when he was about 14 1/2 months. I have about 9 more pics to upload but I'll do that later when I have more time. We're about to get ready to go to my grandma's to put up her tree (should be interesting with Nathan around, and they have LOTS of breakables )

We got papers today saying when Charles' next court date is and it is in March. They're supposed to have some mediator (sp?) settle things between them but if that doesn't work out then they go to trial. (Which is probably what will happen.) And so far she hasn't tried to get in contact with us about her visitation this Saturday. Not that I thought she would.

[sumbirdy]

The poor baby got a flu shot today. And was sick half the day yesterday, throwing up. We've found out that he doesn't have baby "spit up" anymore.

Stephanie has informed us that she will be showing up every Saturday. BUT she wants the visitation to be at her house or a public place to "make it more convenient for us" How is getting up extra early and dragging Nathan out into the cold every Saturday "more convenient for us"? And why would we have it at her house? It's up to her to show up to visitations, NOT up to us to get Nathan to her!

[sumbirdy]

Well, she showed up today. We had to endure 3 hours of her "mommy show" She tried to say that Nathan was the center of her world. Yeah, so where has she been for the past 4 months? I didn't believe all the stuff that she was putting out. She tried to tell us that her dad told her that he wanted to see Nathan at Christmas. Wait...isn't this the same dad that claimed she shouldn't have a kid, and isn't this the same dad she didn't want to have anything to do with? And she kept talking about when Nathan "comes over" to her house. I didn't know if I could step in and say...umm, he's not going over there, so I just kept my mouth shut.
Nathan was friendly to her, he would smile at her and give her his toys...but he wasn't as friendly to her as he is to the rest of us. When she picked him up before she left to hug him goodbye (playing the "I'm so sad" card ) he reached for me and wouldn't let her hug him. He knows who his family is and who loves him and to him she'll probably just be someone who comes over for a little while every Saturday. We're not calling her "mama" to him because it takes a lot more than just giving birth to a child to be a mom. And most definetly she is not even near the mom catagory.