GOTCHA

With all the time I knew we would have on planes and in airports I brought along Dr. Avant’s book, “If God were Real.” I finally started reading it this morning while I was waiting on them to bring Anna Beth to our hotel room. After just 30 minutes with her I can promise you God IS real. Your prayers have been heard. While I promise you the first 10 or 15 minutes were probably some of the most tense any of us have experienced., things have made a turn for the better. ABC has calmed down a little. (Ashley you will be so happy that changing her into some new clothes made her calm down.) She has played with some toys, had a snack, finally tried her juice, and is having a discussion with Leighbo about what it means to potty.

When they brought her to us, they had a little bag of toys with her. She had the photo albums we had left for her, and she had a”little angel” doll. I asked Leigh if we had left that before, and she quickly produced our copy that Lesley had sent. Thanks again God for winking at us and reminding us that you are in control, and as long as we will follow along you will continue to take care of us.

Well, the morning continued pretty well. We had a visitor from her orphanage, Alexander’s new parents had to go out to get him registered. The kdis both played, but not together. Diana Beth was very tired, so we laid her down for a nap. Then we had another surprise hoop to jump thru. We had to wake her up and take her to Alexander’s room while we went back to the courthouse. Seems that Diana’s last name was misspelled in translation and we had adopted the wrong kid. Some how 26 letters of our alphabet get messed up when you try to convert them to 34 phonetic characters. This was discovered when they wouldn’t allow us to register her as ours. The hearing only took about 10 minutes, and the judge agreed to correct the spelling and allow us to get that decision today, not 10 days from now. So back to the hotel, and wait to see if we can get registered today. 　
　
Just got back from getting the adoption decree and birth certificate. SHE IS OFFICIALY OURS!!!!!!!! And we are back on schedule.

Hope everyone else has this good of a day.