Court -- take three--and it's a wrap!

So, everyone showed up to court again, as planned, and apparently all the i's were dotted and t's were crossed, because the judge pronounced us the parents of the kiddos! We were expecting lots of questions about why we wanted to adopt special needs kids, and why three, but there were no questions. Everyone stood and congratulated us, and looked really happy for us. I got a tear in my eye, but only one. It was all over with suddenly, so I didn't have time to get too emotional. Later, David said, "I wanted to get a picture of us with our judge, but I didn't know whether it would be appropriate." Our facilitator said, "You should have asked! She would have done it!"

We found out that the littlest girl is, indeed, in the hospital, with a respiratory illness.  The facilitator said that they keep them for 5 days minimum, and we think she's been in for 4 days.  We're not sure because we didn't go to see her Thur or Fri last week because of court.  So, hopefully she'll be out soon.  We asked if we could go to visit, but not surprisingly, were told no.

I posted some extra pictures I had laying around, since we didn't get any pictures of the kids today, and no picture with the judge, either!

David loves this curved building.

We bought a souvenir in St. Andrews church.  I call it our little shrine.  I actually think this art work is very beautiful.

Pure sweetness

This statue stands guard over one of the orphanage houses.  Hmm...

Our one day outside was a lot of fun.

I decided to re-run this pic, because his profile reminds me of someone--Harold and the purple crayon!

"They're soooo pretty!"