It's Official!!!! We Have Bands and EVERYTHING!

July 18, 2012

Our court time was at 8:30am. We woke up excited and somewhat sleepy from our restless night, but today was the day!

We arrived at the courthouse early. We went through the metal detectors and security screening to go find our lawyer. When we found him he proceeded to take us to our courtroom.

(Side note.... I couldn't help but think of Harry Potter and Mr. Weasley making their way to the Ministry of Magic after Harry's breach of under aged wizardry, of course we were at the courthouse for a much more pleasant hearing but still, that is what popped into my mind.)

We waited for about five minutes for the judge to arrive. Our lawyer is a very kind man. He has adopted 5 out of his 6 children and so he understands the stress and anticipation we experience. He told us that the judge we were assigned to is  bit stoic or apathetic. Another judge at the same courthouse has a bunch of candy for the kidos and loves taking pictures with the families. He told us not to be discouraged about our judge and to remember that the finalization is the important part.


We finally were called in to see the judge. He had already been signing everything as we were walking in. Once he finishing signing he shook our hands and that was it- the girls were ours. It wasn't quite what I had expected but nonetheless Aryiah and Lily are ours!

We then got to apply for their birth certificates.

After finalization the hospital was able to give us bands that matched the girls so that we didn't have to keep signing the visitors log each time we visited.