It's Official....Again!

One more adoption journey destination reached. Today we had a court hearing on the readoption of Katie. Here in Orange County it is first come, first serve in family court. We were told to be at the courthouse by 8:30 am. We were there even before that and the line to get through security was about a mile long. We were worried we wouldn't make it! Once we got to the family court waiting room there were about 15 or so people ahead of us for various matters. Our attorney was able to arrange for us to be the first appearance, so that was nice! Luckily, no one waiting complained as Katie was just so darn cute walking around in the waiting room, I guess she won everyone over.

The judge asked us questions about our adoption process and then reviewed our homestudy. He asked how Katie had adjusted to life here. At that point, Katie was ruling the court room as she had wandered up in front of the judge's desk and was doing a little kind of dance and pointing at things. He immediately said, "Well, I can see that she has adjusted beautifully." It was a really nice ceremony and the judge told us as he neared the end of the proceeding that he deals with ugly matters most every day, all day in court and it was an absolute pleasure to be able to start the day off with something so wonderful today. They had a little congratulations card for Katie's scrapbook and took pictures of us with the judge.

Now we just wait for her birth certs which will come as a result of the proceeding today. Whew!