Adoption Day

**Update- look and see who's in the photo of the day at the Bellingham Herald online since I couldn't be bothered to post any good photos :)

For such a long, exciting and action packed day- I sadly have only three photos to share. Pathetic, I know. But when I get all the good ones from Sandi I'll do a post to do it justice. For now, you get the 25 teddy bears in the courtroom for the 25 adoptions completed in that room today. Below you see the Nes.quik bunnies for the siblings, no really they are actual Nes.quik bunnies. Hee hee, ruthless marketing. When we finished our turn and Christian was handed his, he told the judge, "Oh good, I really wanted to get the bunny!" It was hilarious!And here we have the little mister waiting to go into court, and of course chasing the girls. This was too funny. He spotted little Ada, and stopped running around to crawl on the floor after her! "Hey darlin', come here often?"

I apparently did a really lousy job of explaining today's re-adoption to our friends. I think everyone had their own incorrect interpretation of why we were having a party this evening :) Today was our county's National Adoption Day, so I got my butt kicked into finishing up paperwork to do this final step of his adoption on a fun day (instead of a ho hum day at the courthouse). It really has nothing to do with his adoption, because that was already totally and completely final. It does allow him to get a US birth certificate, change his name (more on that another time) and complete his citizenship. All good things of course, I was just procrastinating that last big fat check. Nice to be done with that too I guess.