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i hope my post didn't come across as being critical. i didn't mean to be at all! i just see both sides (keeping sibs together AND not moving kids around when attachments have been formed). i also just don't think that one couple's relative fertility compared to another's should play a role in which family is best for those individual children. i think if the other foster parents took on an attitude that the little girl wasn't as important now that they had a bio child, they would get criticized for that (and rightly so). In this case they love their bio child and their foster child and they don't want to lose the foster any more than they would want someone to take their bio child. i hope that makes sense! The most important thing is the best thing for the kids.
There's no excuse for CPS to pit one family against the other or to play bidding wars about it. They should care only about what's best for the kids, too. i hope that's how the case is determined in the end.
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After a year, much turnover in the department, several documents lost and shredded and resubmitted, we are finally APPROVED!
First placement: toddler boy and girl - went to family 
Second placement: 12 year old boy - went to family
Third placement: (6/3/09) 2 day old baby girl - plan ADOPTION (by us  ) 
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