Best Day of Our Lives

So this is the story of the day we got our little sunshine. Now, I mentioned in my intro we didn't have my boyfriends daughter quite yet. She still lived with bio mom and at the time we had no problem with that. Things started around his daughters birthday. I typically worked the night shift and came back later. When I arrived home the kiddo was fast asleep on the couch trying to wait until I got home from work. But as soon as I walked through the door I knew something was wrong. My boyfriend had one of our mutual friends come over because his daughter wouldn't talk to him. When I went to the couch to get his daughter off to bed I saw what they were talking about. She had a huge black eye, not a typical oh she fell black eye no it looked like someone had hit her. But the story she was telling is that she was spinning and hit it off the corner of bio moms coffee table. Not uncommon for a child to fall so I honestly didn't think much of it. Until I got her to talk and she was saying the same thing she told our friend and her father. You'd think well again not uncommon, however our problem was that she was repeating it word for word. Like she had memorized what to say, or she had been coached to say it. We shared our concerns with mom and she basically blew us off about it which made us feel even more uneasy. I wish that was the last incident before our happy day, but it wasn't. The next time we had gotten her she had such a bad sunburn that it had created some really nasty blisters. Which again didn't sit well with us. We were told that she had sunscreen on, but we didn't believe it so we called DHHS. We shared our concerns and come to find out we weren't the only ones with a problem with bio mom. We were informed about other incidents that were reported on, so we were told to keep ahold of his daughter until they could come and visit her with us. At this time she did have a room that she stayed in with us. But her dad was a little concerned with the cops being called. DHHS asked if there was a court order in place and there was none. That is when we were told then there was nothing the cops could do because he was bio dad. The next day DHHS came out to see us and we showed them the pictures of the burns and explained what we had put on them to keep them clean. That resulted all of going in for a team meeting to decide what was going to happen next. The next day when we attended the team meeting bio mom was making such a fuss about things that she either did (or didn't do) and tried saying he wasn't an involved father. Not to mention he did not know his daughter was his until after a year and a paternity test was done. At the end of this meeting it was decided she was to only have supervised visits and that dad would have custody of their daughter until mom got some help. After this meeting we were so excited, I was excited we got to see her more and that she would be taken care of. This was the best day of my life, thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy!