It was a special day in Hamilton County Probate Court.Each year, Hamilton County Job and Family Services partners with Hamilton County Probate Court to hold a special day of adoption ceremonies.This year, seven Hamilton County children have been adopted by six families, just in time for the holiday season.The children range in age from 1 year old to 13 years old. Judge Ralph Winkler has finalized more than 180 adoptions in 2022.One of the families is Amber Humphries, who was already a single mom of three kids when she learned her kids had a newborn sibling.That's when she took her children to the hospital to visit the baby girl and took some photos of them together. Hamilton County Jobs and Family Services said Humphries assumed they would grow up not having much contact with each other, but then the hospital called and asked if she could take the baby for two weeks while some help was set up with her biological family.She said yes and that she wanted to help. Then two weeks became two months. “Then I began to wonder, What’s going on here?” Humphries said. “We didn’t want to lose her, but we understood what I signed on for.”Now, two years later, Humphries became a single mom of four kids, adopting the baby girl, Aniyah, on Friday.Aniyah joins her siblings Ace, 9; Tiahna, 7; and Alexander, 6. They were adopted in 2020. The JFS caseworker for the family, Maggi Erhart, said Humphries, who works in hospice, has “the right temperament. She’s very calm and kind.” Humphries said her large family is a huge help."They have been such a loving and experience and I'm just blessed to have these four kids," Humphries said during the adoption hearing on Friday.2-year-old Brooklyn was adopted by her forever family on Friday.David and Stacy Schuchter said they took in Brooklyn when she was two days old in 2020 when everything shut down for COVID-19. That started a the two and a half year journey through foster care and into adoption on Friday."Our goal was to do whatever was best for her no matter what that looked like, so once we finally go through all the court case and once we got turned over to adoption, we felt like we could let our guards down and celebrate that we do get to keep her forever," Stacy said."This day is about celebrating her, celebrating getting to be an official family," David said.
It was a special day in Hamilton County Probate Court.
Each year, Hamilton County Job and Family Services partners with Hamilton County Probate Court to hold a special day of adoption ceremonies.
This year, seven Hamilton County children have been adopted by six families, just in time for the holiday season.
The children range in age from 1 year old to 13 years old.
Judge Ralph Winkler has finalized more than 180 adoptions in 2022.
One of the families is Amber Humphries, who was already a single mom of three kids when she learned her kids had a newborn sibling.
That's when she took her children to the hospital to visit the baby girl and took some photos of them together.
Hamilton County Jobs and Family Services said Humphries assumed they would grow up not having much contact with each other, but then the hospital called and asked if she could take the baby for two weeks while some help was set up with her biological family.
She said yes and that she wanted to help. Then two weeks became two months. “Then I began to wonder, What’s going on here?” Humphries said. “We didn’t want to lose her, but we understood what I signed on for.”
Now, two years later, Humphries became a single mom of four kids, adopting the baby girl, Aniyah, on Friday.
Aniyah joins her siblings Ace, 9; Tiahna, 7; and Alexander, 6. They were adopted in 2020.
The JFS caseworker for the family, Maggi Erhart, said Humphries, who works in hospice, has “the right temperament. She’s very calm and kind.”
Humphries said her large family is a huge help.
"They have been such a loving and experience and I'm just blessed to have these four kids," Humphries said during the adoption hearing on Friday.
2-year-old Brooklyn was adopted by her forever family on Friday.
David and Stacy Schuchter said they took in Brooklyn when she was two days old in 2020 when everything shut down for COVID-19.
That started a the two and a half year journey through foster care and into adoption on Friday.
"Our goal was to do whatever was best for her no matter what that looked like, so once we finally go through all the court case and once we got turned over to adoption, we felt like we could let our guards down and celebrate that we do get to keep her forever," Stacy said.
"This day is about celebrating her, celebrating getting to be an official family," David said.
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