The perfect shoes (also at the Goodwill)..............................$.99
The perfect Yankee Doodle Hat at Michael's.....................$3.99
Little Red Bolivian Sweater................................................$15.00
Mommy acting as the lawyer..............................................FREE
American Citizenship.................................................PRICELESS
The Judge is standing, BTW. No, Really. Kat is not.
Letting success go straight to her head!
We knew our hearing was today, but we weren' t sure that the adoption would be finalized, as we heard from the court last week that we were missing a County background check and our fingerprint letter from Homeland Security. Mostly because I had no idea they were supposed to be submitted. With the help of our social worker, we got the County thing done this week, but our fingerprints had expired back on her first birthday and it would take months to get them again. So I submitted the old letter and the new background check, today, which I think helped, as it didn't get kicked out in the review earlier in the week for being expired. Or she really didn't care about our stupid fingerprints...... Whatever the case. we have a certified adoption decree, which will be followed by a US birth certificate. Which will be followed in short order by a US passport! She's one of us now. A great day for the kid, though she doesn't seem to appreciate it in the slightest.
I had planned to take a bunch pics of her in her chair with all of her patriotic attire on, but we learned a valuable lesson. Never put a kid in for a long overdue nap with just a dress and a diaper on. Turns out, they may unfasten the diaper, and then proceed to soil the bed, themselves, and everything that they roll in while screaming bloody murder. oops. Who knew? Those pics will follow this week, when we're in Calgary (we leave tomorrow AM).
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