Mother is back in contact and as usual prefers text messaging. She notes that Cookie has started walking and that we should schedule a visit. She sends pictures via cell phone. We receive notification of a newborn adoptive placement and get custody 5 days later on Nov. 19th. We exchange photos with the mother via cell phone. She is anxious to see the new baby, excited that the baby is Hispanic (like Cookie) and notes how much like Cookie’s father our daughter’s coloring is.

Mother is working on Thanksgiving but texts us and refers to the baby as “Cookie”. Mother knows this was our family’s nickname for Cookie although we have always been extremely careful to call Cookie by her name in the mother’s presence so as not to flaunt our closeness to Cookie.