What? Re-adoption? "Didn't you already adopt them once?", you ask. Yes we did but this is different. Today we joined with a group of maybe 10 or so families re-adopting kids here in Texas. These kiddos were born all over the world and are living with their families all over Texas. People have different reasons to wanting to re-adopt in their own states but our main reason is that now we'll be issued a Texas birth certificate. This means that if we ever (heaven forbid!) lose their Russian one we won't be out of luck. We can get a Texas copy anytime we need one without jumping through millions of hoops. This wasn't a requirement but something we chose to do. There is also something called a recognition of foreign adoption that we could have done but it wouldn't have given us a Texas birth certificate. Our good friend Luke (and mom Kelly) were part of our group today and we all went to San Antonio together.
The boys before we left - good buddies!
This picture of us with the judge really stinks and I was apparently talking but I've got more being sent to me. The judge asked Zachary if he wanted to sit on her lap. He also got to hold her gavel. She tried to talk to Alex but he wanted nothing to do with her. He really wanted to hide behind daddy's leg but we made him stand in front.
After the judge ruled in favor of all the re-adoptions she told the kids that now they would get ice cream every year on this day. We didn't get any today but we'll try to remember for next year. We love you Alex & Zachary!
2 comments:
We had fun!
Ahhh. So glad that they joined our family!!!
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