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Age: 1 month

Jack had been at the orphanage for at most a month. The staff were very good with him, but no one had stepped up to foster him yet. On the 30th of November two people, Anna and Jonathan came into his bumblebee-covered room. Anna picked him up with gentle hands from his swing chair, and cuddled him close to her chest. He was put into a car seat with a cover and hat after being strapped in. Jonathan carried Jack to a blue Reno Scenic, and strapped him in facing the chair then got in himself with Anna in the middle back seat. They had been driving for about an hour when Jack woke up to hear them talking about prams or something. Then they pulled up in a drive with another car, possibly a mini. The house looked posh and big; with lavender patches scattered in-between other flowers in front of the house. Jack was lifted out of the car still in the seat, and set down on an island in the kitchen next to the sink and breakfast bar. He was plucked from his seat and lifted into Anna's arms, she offered him a bottle and he accepted gladly drinking the warm milk.

He woke up in his cot. His room was a cream colour with his name on the wall in blue, with dinosaurs surrounding his name. There was a nightlight on bedside table, which had a cupboard that was slightly ajar showing piles of books. He cried out for food as he had suddenly realised he was hungry. Anna had come in with a bottle to feed him in only a vest top and pyjama bottoms. After she had gone he went back to sleep. In the morning Jack had cried for ages even after he had been cuddled and fed. Anna had to let Jonathan go to work so she decided to take Jack to Mother care (a shop for mums and kids in the UK but I've put it in America (I don't know if its already there or not)) to look for a pram. When they got there a friendly staff helped them pick out a pram that converts into a pushchair. The pram had white with black stars on the inside, as the guy had said that black and white soothed baby's, with blue on the outside. After buying some more nappies, sleepsuits and food for jack, Anna bought it and thanked the man before setting Jack down in it. On the way to town Jack fell asleep and Anna decided that would be a good time to go to McDonalds for her lunch.

The next day Jack was lying on a blanket on the floor looking around at his surroundings. There was a flat screen TV, opposite that there was a corner sofa mimicking a wall between the living room, which was barred of by a playpen, and kitchen diner. In the kitchen there was an island with a sink and a breakfast bar, there were counters behind it and to the left of it one of which had a built in oven. On the end of the left counters was a fridge and refrigerator. To the right of all this there was a large dining table with five chairs and a blue highchair with little dinosaurs on it. Next to the fridge was the door to the hallway, in the hallway a little way down and to the left, was the door to the front room opposite that there was the staircase it had a cream carpet on it rather than the smooth wooden floors in the kitchen-diner-living room, and hallway. The staircase would start straight then it would curve to go along the walls.

It was Tuesday and Jack had been with Anna and Jonathan for nearly a week now. Jack was lying on his back in the living room underneath a mobile smiling at the tune it played. Anna walked over wiping her hands dry after finishing washing up the plates from the meal her and Jonathan had had. Jonathan was in the front room doing some work. Anna bent down and tickled Jack to make him laugh, Jack laughed hysterically at this.

In the North Pole the guardians and Father Time stood watching this through one of Father Time's mirrors. Baby tooth and Tooth were hovering above the heads of the others. After the image disappeared and the mirror reappeared, they began to chatter away about who would collect his teeth when he got them (not that she would need them but because she would like to keep them to admire). Sandy had been giving Jack good dreams already and was chatting to Bunny about it, while North was telling Phil about what he had planned for Jacks first Christmas (in that state I mean).

Jack woke up to find he was in his pram arriving at their house, after going for a walk he had fallen asleep. When they got in he was left in his cot while Anna and Jonathan busied themselves with cleaning up the house. An hour later and Jack was being put under the mobile in the living room when the doorbell rang and Jonathan let a man who was in a suit into the room. He was carrying a clipboard and seemed to be looking around. After he had been through the entire house he handed a piece of paper to Jonathan and left without a word. Jonathan and Anna looked at the sheet, which told them that they had been approved to be Jack's foster parents, and let out a whoop of joy startling Jack. He was about to cry when Anna rocked him in her arms to the lullaby of the mobile.