Optimistic Brothers

I was reminded yesterday of the good boys David and I have.  

Over the summer David and I took classes to become foster parents.  We also had to get our house ready to be licensed.  Sounds simple but believe me it was a process and it took a lot of time and money.  We have been completely ready for about 3 weeks now and are just waiting for a call saying we are in need.

So yesterday, I got a text from my family resource worker to ask about a possible placement.  But this placement would mean that Hyrum would have to stay in the room of one of his brothers.  So, I got them together and asked how they felt about 2 little girls staying with us.  Hyrum was excited because he would get to stay in a room with one of his brothers.  On that note, when we first moved here he was sad the first few nights that he wasn't down stairs in a room with his brothers.  I think it was because he was scared by himself (though, he is right next to us) as well as I think he was afraid they were having all kinds of fun without him!

Levi and Brigham didn't want to share their room but I was surprised at their responses.  It wasn't a flat out no.  They just kind of groaned and when I said that he should stay with Brigham because he has the bigger room, again, he didn't say no.  Just didn't want to do it.  And he wasn't even mad about it.  But then, my always wanting to make people happy Levi, said it would be ok for Hyrum to stay with him.

So that was sweet.  And it got even better.  When I asked them about having girls in our house they were ok with it but they wanted her to be older than them.  When I asked them why Levi said because he doesn't like being the oldest.  I get that.  I remember growing up not liking being the oldest at times.  But Brigham said that he wanted an older sister (yes, they want a sister...not someone just living with us :) because of how nice Shaylee (their cousin) is.  I am in love with my niece Shaylee so it melted my heart to hear him say that.  But I wanted him to understand that not all girls are like Shaylee.  He replied that that was ok because they could get her to be like Shaylee eventually.  

I love the hope and optimistic outlooks that children have.