Validation

Yeah!!! We had our adoption hearing today to validate the foreign adoption of our boys. All went well and the judge was happy to change both names and birth dates for us. The courts usually hear not so happy cases in family court, so...... this was a joyous occasion and they said we are the highlight of the week. O Happy Day! We all got to bang the gavel to make it official. That was fun. Nate banged 3 times, everyone else just a conservative one time. Fitting to personality. :)

We celebrated by swimming after swim lessons, going to the hearing, then Josh and John's ice cream and then pizza at Fargos. What fun. We are all tired and piling into bed as fast as we can. The boys don't understand at all, but the photos from Gram and Grampa should help them have some memories of it later on.

Rejoice with us on this happy day.

Now for the birth certificate, citizenship and SS#. Does the paperwork ever end? I think by the time we get all this done it will be time to fill out college applications!! Just kidding! I hope to have it done by the year end. We will see.